Nepal Airlines sacrifices goat to fix airplane

When a Nepal airlines plane sufferred repeated technical problems one solution was to sacrifice a pair of goats to the Hindu god of the sky protection, Akash Bhairab, in front of the plane, a Boeing 757.

I once flew Nepal airlines between Kathmandu and Pokhara and although the plane landed ok, whilst taxing back to the terminal building the hydraulic brakes failed and the plane just bounced along the side of the runway until it finally stopped by hitting another stationary plane.

I can therfore understand why some prayer might be in order to keep the planes airworthy!!

Still my worry is that Ryanair might considered that sacrificing goats to the gods is much cheaper than paying ground crews to service the planes. Maybe we'll see a 'goat charge' being introduced sometime soon....