Smelly carpet sees flight diverted Lufthansa has not yet commented on the incident. More weird reasons for aircraft delays An Air India flight was delayed by an hour earlier this year after the pilot, Captain Smiriti Trehan, refused to fly. Her objection was due to the fact that the original Mumbai-Jodhpur-Delhi route had been altered by the airline, cutting out the stopover in Jodhpur. Not a problem, you'd assume. However, Trehan had already arranged for some of the city's famous onion kachoris to be delivered to her at the airport while the plane waited. Angered by her employers" inflexibility, she declined to take charge of the flight. A guest on a stag party caused a plane to be diverted last summer after attempting to set his friend's hair on fire at 30,000ft. The 24-year-old from Widnes was arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after the incident, which took place on a Monarch flight from Manchester to Majorca. Amateur aviator Larry Walters built a flying machine in 1982 that consisted of a patio chair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it. He took flight, reaching an altitude of 15,000ft, before floating into controlled airspace above Los Angeles International Airport, causing widespread disruption to services. A flight was diverted earlier this year after a young family strongly objected to the plane's "violent" and "sexually explicit" in-flight film. The flight was showing the 2012 crime thriller Alex Cross, which is rated "15" in Britain. In the US, it had the "T" classification, which warns of adult themes. In a widely disputed incident at the same airport, former President Bill Clinton allegedly delayed several departures so a stylist could finish cutting his hair on board Air Force One. Click here to read about other odd delays