New Aircraft Maintenance Procedure

We're not sure where you'd find this procedure in the official Boeing 757 maintenance manuals. Nepal has instituted a whole new maintenance regime: goat sacrifice.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said on Tuesday.

Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem.

The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft on Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.

Nepal Airlines officials say the new procedure was effective and the planes are now airworthy. The goats were unavailable for comment. It doesn't look like they teach advanced techniques like this over at this school, though. We had no idea goat sacrifice worked on aircraft. We thought it was only good for fixing computers.