Pop goes on-time arrival, due to cork

An errant champagne cork led to a seven-hour delay for British air travellers after it hit the cabin roof of a jetliner and caused the oxygen masks to deploy. A flight attendant was opening the bottle of bubbly for some off-duty crew when the popped cork rocketed into the ceiling panels of the easy Jet Airbus A320 bound from London to Turkey, The Sun reported. The flight was halfway through its journey when the incident occurred, and the pilot made the decision to divert to Milan, Italy, to repair the damage. One passenger told the paper: “It wasn’t very funny at the time but I can see the lighter side now. All that hassle, delay and money wasted by easy Jet — all over a champagne cork.”