A Netherlands Air Force plane mistakenly landed at Little Rock National Airport — what do you suppose officials decided to freak out about when a foreign plane landed at a domestic airport with no international support?
The trash.
The little 10 passenger cargo flight was supposed to be routed to Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville, but lines got crossed and they ended up at an airport in Little Rock with no incinerator.
According to airport spokesman T.J. Williams (via USA Today): “There’s protocol for bringing anything in from overseas. One thing you have to do is properly incinerate the garbage.”
Williams isn’t just being a stick in the mud; his airport could have been fined up to $250,000 for improper disposal of the Eurotrash.
The solution? Denver-based Integrated Airline Services Inc. swooped in and paid $1,750 to have the two bags of Eurotrash incinerated nearby in El Dorado.
Little Rock airport is looking into purchasing a small, $3,950 incinerator.