Plane Diverted After Squirrel Found On Board - Squirrel on a motherf*cking plane!

[matcom]

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HONOLULU: 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.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/15/america/NA-GEN-US-Stowaway-Squirrel.php

[taterguy]

1. Couldn't they just shoot a hole in the plane and blow the squirrel out?

Seems like that would be a lot less trouble than diverting the plane

[eyepaddle]

2. Calling Blue-Jay

Come in Blue-Jay!

Take it away! :)

[Blue-Jay]

10. Mmmmm..... I got nothin'

I used up all my funny last night.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Did he buy a ticket?

Maybe he was just trying to get home to see his family. Poor little guy.

(I feed squirrels in my front yard).

[dropkickpa]

4. Heh heh heh, he said varmint!!

Yosemite Sam is spokesman for Americam Airlines!!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. Note to Samuel L. Jackson...

Don't even think about it!

[Pierre.Suave]

6. well

"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.



I DO want SOMETHING up there, mostly, the wiring...

[Parche]

7. SQUIRREL

Damn that Rocky

[TommyO]

8. Plane Diverted After Squirrel Found On Board In Her Pants

[av8rdave]

9. Mother&%$#ing squirrels....there was a case years ago involving a mouse

on a plane belonging to a major airline. It was reported multiple times by multiple passengers on multiple flights (on one flight was seen running across a movie screen). All efforts to trap/find the little critter were fruitless. Finally, they took the plane aloft without passengers, put the flight crew on O2, and depressurized, remaining airborne long enough to let hypoxia do the job. Talk about an expensive mousetrap! I don't know how long it took them to find the body...

[Katherine Brengle]

11. lmao

That movie was both awesome and horrible lol.