Soccer star leads air safety drill

He can score goals with the best of them, but can Lionel Messi help one out of a stricken passenger jet?

Qatar Airways is betting he can by enlisting the Barcelona soccer star to narrate its inflight safety video.

The video is set in a soccer stadium and features spectators buckling their seats in the stands and players demonstrating the brace position as they form a wall to block a free kick.

Airlines are increasingly using celebrity safety videos as marketing gimmicks, with Air New Zealand leading the way. The kiwi carrier has featured All Blacks rugby players, British survivalist Bear Grylls and Sports Illustrated bikini models in its campaigns.

FREE PYJAMAS FOR ELITE FLYERS

Business-class travellers on long-haul Delta flights will soon be boasting of more than additional legroom — they’ll be the flyers in fetching pyjamas.

Delta Air Lines has announced that, beginning in March, it will provide free cotton PJs to business-class passengers on flights from Los Angeles to Sydney and from L.A. to Shanghai, which can last up to 15 seat-squirming hours.

GIRAFFE TONGUE ON MUSEUM’S LOST LIST

A 20-inch giraffe’s tongue is among more than 100 items reported stolen, missing or damaged from Scotland’s national museum.

The tongue, belonging to a stuffed Namibian male giraffe, was snapped off by a vandal in 2014 from Scotland’s national historic collection in Edinburgh.

Museum documents also show a polar bear’s claws, a 1916 Military Cross medal, a pistol-shaped hip flask and a horse harness have gone AWOL since 2010.