Delta Airlines Plane Grounded at JFK Due to Mouse Onboard

by Amy Judd | October 21, 2009 at 09:22 am
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A Delta Airlines plane was grounded at JFK for three hours this past Sunday after a mouse was found onboard.

300 passengers on the plane were told that the pilot wouldn't fly with the mouse in the cabin just in case a Snakes On A Plane situation occurred and the mouse interruped the electrical wires during the flight. In that movie a cargo of poisonous snakes causes havoc by attacking passengers and crew and the aircraft has electrical trouble.

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The mouse could have chewed through wires on the plane so the pilot wanted a replacement aircraft.

Andy Picken, 47, who had been to the US with his wife Jenny to celebrate her 40th birthday, told the Sun he had to wait three hours for a substitute plane to arrive at midnight.

"We thought it was a joke, but the captain said we all had to get off.

"It is amazing that something as small as a mouse disrupted a transatlantic jet."

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Rhonda J Mangus

"The mouse could have chewed through wires on the plane so the pilot wanted a replacement aircraft."

He's a pilot I could fly with:)!


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jazzyzazzy

Poor wee mouse must have been petrified.However the pilot did not take the slightest risk with the passengers on board,I have to applaud him on that.

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Mritunjay

Who let the mouse out!?

Lol..but the pilot surely made the right call. Better to be cautious than repent later!

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