Slapdash Air Flight 394 was canceled in midair yesterday when its pilot and copilot realized that a mistake was made in the flight’s paperwork.

Robert Stark, the pilot, explains, “I was looking at the choice of meals we had for the flight. I saw that the choices would be steak and fish. But that’s not what I wanted, I wanted lasagna. Also, there was no comma between steak and fish. If you have choice between steak, and fish. Then there should be a comma. Otherwise, what you are offering is a steak-fish hybrid monstrosity.”

Gisele Smith, the copilot, agrees, “Yeah. That’s bad paperwork. So we had to tell the passengers that the flight was canceled. We were about two third of the way through our trip.”

When later we asked the airline how come their officers would talk to us, the spokesperson said something about them not necessarily being the brightest bulbs in the drawer. From that point on, we no longer had access to the officers.

Lumilda Gaffigan, a passenger, told us, “So they came up on the PA system to tell us to fetch the flotation device from under our seat. Since the flight had been canceled, they told us we’d have to evacuate the premises, and this meant jumping out of an airplane at 35000 feet in the air, a tall order.”