Posted on 08/28/2017 10:37:45 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
One of the world's longest nonstop flights got quite a bit longer on Sunday when a rat was reportedly spotted on board, prompting a nearly 10-hour delay.
The Times of India reports that Air India's New Delhi-to-San Francisco flight was taxiing on the runway at 2:30 a.m., when someone saw a rat. As per airline protocol, the plane had to return to the terminal to be fumigated. This process took about six hours, according to an Air India spokesperson, by which time the flight's pilots and crew had reached the their work-day limit and could no longer operate the flight. That left the airline scrambling to find a new crew for the flight.
The flight, which should have left in the wee small hours of Sunday morning, finally took off around noon.
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if the rat was gay, this is a hate delay.
They fumigate the Plane so the Passengers can enjoy the stench of decomposing Rats during their long Flight to SFO?
Makes perfect sense to me...
Pelosi was flying back home?
Was there strawberry tart with not so much rat in it served?
Was the rat named Bill, Hillary, Barak, Nancy Pepsi, or Maxine Waters?
No big deal; the rat identified as a mouse.
It was a Norwegian Hamster.
Quite honestly, who would ever fly Air India?? I think it was rated one of the least safe airlines a few years ago. Nobody who has ever set foot in India and observed how things run over there would ever get into an airplane with the same name.
I like pet rats, but I can also see their point. Imagine being over open ocean, knowing that somewhere in the aircraft is an animal capable of chewing through avionics control lines etc.
Air India isn’t listed as one of the 10 worst though this list is suspect in a couple of ways when I look at it. Philippines Air is not a bad airline. It isn’t their fault that terrorist blew up some planes.
http://www.travelvivi.com/top-10-most-dangerous-airlines/
India? Just let one of the cobras have it.
Ah crap. Just cook his butt and serve it as a free snack to the passengers.
You want fries with that tail?
#1. Paging William Shatner. Paging William Shatner. You are wanted at window 11, left wing.
"This is a rat turd!"
"Is a caper!"
Well, as long as the passengers do not take a dump in the aisles.
D’rat?
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