Bride’s bouquet brings down airplane
July 15, 2009Yikes!! I can’t believe this actually happened!
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The traditional throwing of a bride’s bouquet for luck ended in disaster at an Italian wedding when the flowers caused a plane to crash.
The bride and groom had hired a microlight plane to fly past and throw the bouquet to a line of women guests, Corriere della Sera reported.
However, the flowers were sucked into the plane’s engine causing it to catch fire and explode.
The aircraft plunged into a hostel. One passenger on the plane was badly hurt.
But about 50 people who had been in the hostel escaped unscathed, as did the pilot.
Entangled
The incident happened at Montioni park in Suvereto, near Livorno, where the wedding reception was being held, Corriere della Sera said.
A passenger on the microlight, named as Isidoro Pensieri, 44, had the job of throwing the bouquet as pilot Luciano Nannelli flew past.
It is believed the bunch of flowers became entangled as it was thrown, and was sucked into the engine.
Mr Pensieri suffered multiple fractures and a head injury. He was taken to hospital in Grosseto by helicopter and then transferred to another in Pisa, Italian media reported.
-Submitted by TW readers Silvana and Kevin
Later, the garter toss resulted in a sprained ankle, two missing teeth, and a bull goring.
But Italy has a long history of this. An overflowing champagne fountain first sank Venice, bad ushering resulted in the Leaning Tower of Pisa (put some more people on the grooms side, for pities sake!), and it was just tragic hearing about that Unity Candle setting off Vesuvius.
That is incredible and also tragic. Sometimes when you try to innovate you end up paying a heavy price.
What a stupid idea. I’m surprised any pilot agreed to it.
That’s terrible