Boeing executives gathered to celebrate the fact that the last of their grounded 737-9s had passed inspection and was returning to flight status. However, in the midst of the self-congratulating speech making, corks from the Dom Perignon champagne unexpectedly popped out of the bottles and the contents sucked out of the bottles as if they were passengers on a 737-9. 

Winslow Stegman, Associate Vice President for Boeing Celebrations, called it a double tragedy. “We not only lost a lot of the champagne, but by the time we cleaned up the guests who had been sprayed, the champagne was kind of flat and no longer chilled to 45 degrees fahrenheit. I mean, who wants to drink Dom Perignon at 53 degrees?”

A Boeing spokesperson had harsh words for the Dom Perignon bottlers. “What kind of sloppy operation produces a product that can suddenly have part of it just pop out? We might sue.”

At publication time, reports were that the wine distributor is a subsidiary of the pan-european airplane manufacturer AirBus.