Squirrels on a Plane
Coming out this summer starring Samuel Jackson.
Ciritcs say “It’s NUTS!!”
Stowaway squirrel grounds jet
POSTED: 8:03 a.m. EST,
February 15, 2007Story Highlights
• Pilots on American Airlines Boeing 777 heard
scratching in cockpit ceiling
• Tokyo to Dallas flight made emergency landing
in Honolulu
• Stowaway squirrel trapped and removed
• The 202 human
passengers got hotel rooms, new flightsHONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) — An American Airlines flight made an
unscheduled landing after pilots heard something skittering about in the
wire-laden space over the cockpit.The airline blamed the emergency landing of the Tokyo-Dallas flight with 202
passengers on a stowaway squirrel.“You do not want a varmint up in the wiring areas and what-have-you on an
airplane. You don’t want anything up there,” said John Hotard, spokesman for the
Fort Worth, Texas-based airline.He said pilots feared the animal would chew through wiring or cause other
problems.“So, as a precaution, we diverted,” Hotard said.
Once on the ground late Friday, the Boeing 777’s human passengers were put up
in hotel rooms and later rebooked on other flights.State and federal agriculture and wildlife officials boarded the plane, set
traps and captured the eastern gray squirrel.Hotard said the plane had flown to Tokyo from New York before the Dallas
flight.Honolulu, however, proved to be the squirrel’s final destination. Fearing it
might have been carrying rabies, authorities had the rodent
killed.
Source: Stowaway
squirrel grounds jet – CNN.com
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