Flight to Spain diverted after mouse leaps from passengers’ meals tray – – CSN

A flight from Oslo to Malaga, within the south of Spain, needed to make an emergency diversion and touchdown yesterday (Thursday) after a mouse unexpectedly jumped out of a passenger’s meal tray, inflicting shock amongst these on board.

The incident befell aboard a Scandinavian Airways (SAS) flight which had simply departed from Oslo and was en path to the favored vacation vacation spot within the Costa del Sol when a passenger opened their meal tray, just for a small rodent to leap onto the cabin flooring.

Whereas the cabin crew reported no main panic, the captain quickly knowledgeable them that the aircraft would want to divert because of the potential security hazard posed by the mouse.

The plane, which had round 180 passengers onboard, went into two holding patterns earlier than making an unscheduled touchdown in Copenhagen (Denmark), and passengers had been requested to disembark whereas engineers carried out an intensive seek for the furry stowaway.

SAS shortly discovered a substitute plane, and the flight resumed its journey, departing Copenhagen at 5:20pm and arriving in Malaga by 8:00pm. A spokesperson for SAS confirmed that the diversion was normal process in such conditions to make sure security.

Whereas rodents on flights are very uncommon, they do pose vital dangers, resembling damaging electrical wiring on the aircraft. Bugs, significantly cockroaches, are extra generally discovered on planes, with a notable incident in July when a video of a cockroach on a United Airways flight went viral.