4-8-2023 (ROME) A Lufthansa pilot has inadvertently created a 15-mile-long penis-shaped loop in the sky while responding to a request to divert their flight from Frankfurt to Sicily to Malta, according to data from air-traffic website Flightradar24. The diversion was due to a disruption at the flight’s original destination of Catania-Fontanarossa Airport, which had been damaged by a fire amid a heat wave.
After receiving the diversion request, the Lufthansa aircraft flew over and past Catania before spending about 16 minutes creating the shape over the sea off the eastern coast of Sicily. The plane then retraced its route back over Catania before continuing to Malta, where it landed about 35 minutes later.
It remains unclear whether the pilot intentionally designed the shape. When asked about it, Lufthansa avoided the question in its response and said that wind shear made it impossible to proceed with the landing approach to Catania. “Therefore, the captain had to fly a holding and made the approach again, but without success. He then flew to Malta, refueled, and approached Catania from a different direction,” a spokesperson said.
This is not the first incident of a phallic-shaped flight pattern in the sky. Earlier this year, an Armed Forces of Malta helicopter seemingly took detours to draw a similar pattern over Malta. Last year, a US Air Force refueling aircraft also appeared to draw a penis shape near a Syrian city where Russia has a naval base, but Air Force officials insisted it was coincidental.
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