Bride's bouquet causes plane to crash

Jul 15 2009 By Lorraine Waddell

THE wedding tradition of the bride throwing her bouquet brought a plane down in Italy.

The newlyweds had organised for a plane to fly past and hurl the flowers at guests below but the pretty floral arrangement got sucked into the craft's engine.

This resulted in the engine catching fire and exploding.

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