U.S. Flight Diverts to Remote Island After ‘Pungent’ Smell Fills Cabin

DENIS BALIBOUSE / REUTERS A transatlantic flight has made an emergency landing after a strange odor in the cabin left several passengers feeling unwell. The unidentified stench was detected on Swiss International Air Lines flight LX-9 from Chicago to Zurich, Switzerland, on Monday. The 10-year-old Boeing 777-300—which was carrying 222 passengers and 16 crew—was forced to make an unscheduled detour to the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago about 900 miles west of the mainland. The flight was about…