"Well, of course it's a rat. You have rats in Spain, don't you? Or did Franco have 'em all shot?"
Posted on 10/23/2024 8:38:48 AM PDT by DFG
Forget snakes on a plane — these passengers were panicked by a rodent on an aircraft.
Freaked-out fliers spotted what appeared to be a rat running above an overhead bin on a Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas, Texas to Los Angeles, California.
A video depicting the furry infiltrator has racked up around two million views on Instagram.
“This was seen on a flight from Dallas to LAX this week,” wrote Dallas Texas TV in a caption to the clip, which was a repost of a video shot by @chuck_hustle817.
In the spine-tingling snippet, a pair of rodent feet is seen perched inside a light on the cabin ceiling, which houses the essential electric wiring that traverses the aircraft, Aviation A2Z reported.
The camera then zooms in, illuminating the silhouette of the varmint as it scurries about inside the light like something out of a horror movie.
“It’s a super rat,” exclaims one of the onlookers in the background.
It’s yet unclear which plane the fleabag invaded.
However, Spirit Airlines operates three daily flights between Dallas and Los Angeles: Flight NK420, Flight NK363 and Flight NK3709.
Some users claimed that the plane in question was an Airbus A320 aircraft, potentially narrowing the flight down to NK363 or NK3709, which are serviced by this model aircraft.
The Post has contacted Spirit for further information.
Viewers were understandably freaked out by the idea of being trapped in an airplane cabin with a rat.
“Somebody would have had to tell me what’s up there, we’re not about to just keep flying while something is crawling on top of my head,” said one Instagram commenter.
Another wrote, “He probably been all over the world.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I call them “Ghetto Airlines”.
Like rats on a sinking ship? He is in for a surprise for the landing after he jumps! ;-)
I lost my support rat and everyone freaked out.
I thought we read that this da**ed p-poor excuse for an airline was finally going bankrupt!?
they had something like 3 or 4 months to tell us they were cancelling our early-booked flights. they didn’t. when we got to the departure gate with our baggage, it wasn’t there anymore. they’d abandoned the airport and left nothing, not even a sign. Fortunately, very fortunately, other airlines’ check-in clerks offered to assist us. They managed to get everyone from our cancelled flights onto other airlines’ flights ... in our case at least, there was an extra $2200+ expense since the substitute airline’s early reservation discount had long gone bye-bye (you don’t get an early-booking discount when you’re accommodated at the very last hour, literally running up the ramp).
AFAIC, Sp**** is a very very dark spirit, indeed!
If they’re still in business, we will never ever attempt to fly them again, NEVER!
ps:
Sp*** also refused to refund our fares, $$$
and
Sp*** also refused to reimburse the extra $2200+ cost for the substitute airline
Flying rodents of usual size...
I don’t think they exist.
DemocRAT’s on a plane!
It’s Spirit Airlines, didn’t anyone remember that and start throwing hands?
Back in the neighborhood they’d have given Jerry a knockout for existing.
Latest is they are now talking about merging with Frontier. I don’t think that can save either airline.
It moved and looked like a squirrel. That also seems more likely.
Snakes eat rats, just sayin’...
“Qui?”
I see
thanks for the info
Frontier never really impressed us as a top tier kinda airline but if they’re gonna go in with Sp***, we will avoid Frontier
fortunately there are often alternative airlines (at least to the larger cities)
thanks
Solution. Snakes on a Plane.
Being in fly over country we always knew those planes were full of rats.
why the stars? can’t you spell Spirit?
He was more afraid of the passengers than they were of him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.