A Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) plane had to make an emergency landing after a mouse jumped out of a passenger's meal during the flight. Travelers to Spain were briefly in Denmark.
The incident occurred on Wednesday. The plane from Oslo to Norwaydestined for Malaga, Spain, made an emergency landing after a rodent jumped out of a Scandinavian Airlines customer's lunch. The plane landed in Copenhagen.
The incident was described on social media by a passenger sitting next to the woman. “Believe it or not, the lady next to me on SAS opened a container of food and a mouse jumped out. Now she has to turn around and land in Copenhagen,” Jarle Borrestad said, as quoted by the British broadcaster BBC.
The incident was confirmed by the carrier. Its representative Oystein Schmidt, quoted by the AFP agency, noted that the emergency landing was necessary because the mouse “posed a threat to the safety” of the flight. He added that this happens “exceptionally rarely.”
Airlines usually have very strict rules about checking planes for rodents because their presence poses a threat to electrical wires, the BBC notes, adding that this is the second similar transport incident in Europe this week.
Earlier in the southern England One of the trains stopped and was evacuated after two squirrels got on board and one of them could not be forced out.
Meanwhile, the passengers of the SAS flight in Copenhagen were provided with another plane and flew to Malaga.
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