My OperaIs it a bird, is it a plane? No it's a mouse
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:39:41 PM
The mouse was spotted before passengers boarded the 0815 GMT flight which, as SAS spokesperson Anders Lindstroem pointed out, has significant safety implications since rodents can creep in among cables on an aircraft and gnaw on them.
'For safety reasons, you don't board when there's a mouse on board,' he explained.
'We hope to find it overnight,' he added, after the flight had been cancelled.
According to Lindstroem, the flight's 250 passengers on the Airbus A330 flight were understanding about the situation as SAS attempted to rebook them onto alternative flights.
The rogue, flight-grounding rodent is the latest in a growing line of creatures to cause such disruption - the most recent being the bat on a plane to Atlanta that led to already-rather-freaked-out passengers being tested for rabies.
There were also the rats that grounded a Qantas jet to Sydney, the jumbo to Manchester delayed for 26 hours because of a missing cat and - who could forget? - the plane forced to make an emergency landing in Russia when a passenger burst naked out of its toilet and ran around for a bit.
And what about this?
The escalation in America's War on Farting came on an internal flight between Washington and Dallas, which was forced to land in Nashville when passengers told cabin crew that they could smell burning matches.
Plane taxis A plane. Obviously not the one in the story. Ah well.
After an emergency landing, passengers were evacuated from the plane for security screening, the luggage hold was cleared, and bomb-sniffing dogs were sent onto the plane.
The dogs eventually found a number of spent matches under one passenger's seat.
Under FBI questioning, the woman admitted that she was lighting matches –which is illegal on a plane – in an attempt to conceal 'body odour'.
Reports claim that the woman has 'a medical condition'.
The plane eventually took off again, without the smelly woman, who an airline spokeswoman said had been banned from their flights 'for a long time.'
And lastly:
Ruslan Nevcic, 23, was eventually overpowered by crew and detained by police after an emergency landing in Vladivostok in Russia.
It’s not the first time a flight has been disrupted by naked passengers.
Last year Keith Wright from New York was arrested after he stripped naked during a flight.
Wright was taken into custody after deciding to take off all his clothes during a US Airways flight from North Carolina to Los Angeles.
He later told the FBI he was suffering from a bipolar disorder and had not taken his prescribed medication before leaving New York that morning.
He also allegedly told the FBI he recalled nothing about the flight or his behaviour.
Fellow passenger Ginny Keegan described afterwards how, as the plane took off again, the usual announcement to please fasten your seat belts came with an additional request: 'a reminder to everybody to please keep your clothing on.'
'For safety reasons, you don't board when there's a mouse on board,' he explained.
'We hope to find it overnight,' he added, after the flight had been cancelled.
According to Lindstroem, the flight's 250 passengers on the Airbus A330 flight were understanding about the situation as SAS attempted to rebook them onto alternative flights.
The rogue, flight-grounding rodent is the latest in a growing line of creatures to cause such disruption - the most recent being the bat on a plane to Atlanta that led to already-rather-freaked-out passengers being tested for rabies.
There were also the rats that grounded a Qantas jet to Sydney, the jumbo to Manchester delayed for 26 hours because of a missing cat and - who could forget? - the plane forced to make an emergency landing in Russia when a passenger burst naked out of its toilet and ran around for a bit.
And what about this?
The escalation in America's War on Farting came on an internal flight between Washington and Dallas, which was forced to land in Nashville when passengers told cabin crew that they could smell burning matches.
Plane taxis A plane. Obviously not the one in the story. Ah well.
After an emergency landing, passengers were evacuated from the plane for security screening, the luggage hold was cleared, and bomb-sniffing dogs were sent onto the plane.
The dogs eventually found a number of spent matches under one passenger's seat.
Under FBI questioning, the woman admitted that she was lighting matches –which is illegal on a plane – in an attempt to conceal 'body odour'.
Reports claim that the woman has 'a medical condition'.
The plane eventually took off again, without the smelly woman, who an airline spokeswoman said had been banned from their flights 'for a long time.'
And lastly:
Ruslan Nevcic, 23, was eventually overpowered by crew and detained by police after an emergency landing in Vladivostok in Russia.
It’s not the first time a flight has been disrupted by naked passengers.
Last year Keith Wright from New York was arrested after he stripped naked during a flight.
Wright was taken into custody after deciding to take off all his clothes during a US Airways flight from North Carolina to Los Angeles.
He later told the FBI he was suffering from a bipolar disorder and had not taken his prescribed medication before leaving New York that morning.
He also allegedly told the FBI he recalled nothing about the flight or his behaviour.
Fellow passenger Ginny Keegan described afterwards how, as the plane took off again, the usual announcement to please fasten your seat belts came with an additional request: 'a reminder to everybody to please keep your clothing on.'
Aidialigan0510 # Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:05:10 AM