On Monday, Delta flight 555 from Las Vegas to Atlanta was in the queue at Harry Reid Airport behind about a dozen other planes waiting to take off. According to the New York Post, before the plane could take off, the pilot announced that the plane had to return to the gate for “multiple emergencies,” presumably the result of the sweltering outdoor temperatures, which reached as high as 115 degrees that day, and a lack of air conditioning inside the plane.

Witnesses claimed that flight attendants had been walking up and down the aisles with oxygen tanks as some passengers began to lose consciousness, others lost control of their bowels, and babies wailed. Fox News field producer Krista Garvin was on the plane and reported that the pilot instructed those passengers experiencing a medical emergency to press the call button.

[Add your jokes in the comments section, but this is pretty outrageous. If the plane couldn’t run its air conditioning during the boarding and taxiing process, it should never have been put into use, especially in Las Vegas. That 115-degree heat is not at all unusual for their airport and the city. — Ed]