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Massive rat stowaway caught on video as flight of 250 passengers left stranded overnight
nypost.com ^ | Dec. 15, 2025 | Ben Cost

Posted on 12/15/2025 12:48:18 PM PST by V_TWIN

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A KLM plane of passengers bound for the Caribbean didn’t have a choice of their in-flight entertainment when they had to be grounded after a massive rat stowed aboard, as seen in a spine-tingling video taking off online.

“[It’s] very unfortunate for the passengers who had to experience this,” a KLM representative told Dutch rag RTL News.

The Airbus A330 was slated to fly from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Aruba before continuing on to Bonaire on December 10.

This flight plan crashed and burned after an unexpected stowaway was spotted scurrying about the cabin, Aviation24 reported.

In the revolting clip, the varmint is seen clambering along the rail as passengers cry out in shock, like a scene straight out of a plague barge.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: V_TWIN

Agreed, thanks for the insight.


21 posted on 12/15/2025 12:59:08 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: BenLurkin

“Some species of snakes eat rats. Let one or two of those loose on the plane.”

Saw a Warner Brothers cartoon made back in the 80’s on that. Release snakes, then mongoose to eat the snakes, then lion to scare off the mongoose, then elephant to scare off the lion, then rat to scare off the elephant. Circle of life.

wy69


22 posted on 12/15/2025 12:59:09 PM PST by whitney69 (`)
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To: Texas Eagle

Ha.

Insatiable appetite.
Movie producer on the plane phoned his aide: “Got a great idea. We combine the old Willard plot with a cannibal angle and make a thinly disguised life of JB Pritzker movie. Actor’s face dissolves into the rat one like Lon Chaney in The Wolf Man. Can’t fail.”


23 posted on 12/15/2025 1:01:05 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your wa lls. )
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To: V_TWIN

“Hey, if you’re gonna get stranded Aruba is the place.”

They weren’t stranded. They got an extra night on Aruba on KLM.


24 posted on 12/15/2025 1:02:09 PM PST by TexasGator (1-I)
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To: V_TWIN

Rats On A Plane


25 posted on 12/15/2025 1:02:24 PM PST by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: V_TWIN

I cant believe any one goes to Aruba after they allowed vanderslut to get away with murder


26 posted on 12/15/2025 1:02:30 PM PST by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: V_TWIN

Unless you’re Natalie Holloway.


27 posted on 12/15/2025 1:03:26 PM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: frank ballenger

I’d go see it. It would be the first movie I’ve gone to a theater to see since Titanic.


28 posted on 12/15/2025 1:04:15 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: V_TWIN

The new Bubonic Plague. Lock it down. Phase 2.


29 posted on 12/15/2025 1:05:26 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Dr. Sivana; CivilWarBrewing

No prob 👍


30 posted on 12/15/2025 1:06:51 PM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: V_TWIN
Airplane full of girly men.

31 posted on 12/15/2025 1:11:29 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: V_TWIN
Something similar happened to me. A rat jumped into my first class seat, then drank my complimentary glass of wine.

Was I upset? You bet I was.


32 posted on 12/15/2025 1:11:50 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: V_TWIN

And there was not a single person on the plane with the hue so to kill the stupid thing?


33 posted on 12/15/2025 1:36:25 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: V_TWIN

Adam Schiff’s so damn cheap that he snuck onto the plane rather than pay for a seat. Typical scumbag Democrat. . .


34 posted on 12/15/2025 2:02:13 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Organic Panic

You can’t just stomp out a rat on an airplane.
Can you imagine the reaction?


35 posted on 12/15/2025 2:02:26 PM PST by samiam5
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To: V_TWIN

The only good rat is a dead rat.


36 posted on 12/15/2025 2:46:52 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: samiam5

I would be happy to stomp a rat to death... although. Now days, it would probably be a hate crime.

I HATE rats


37 posted on 12/15/2025 3:28:16 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: V_TWIN
"Mom! CAN WE KEEP HIM!?!"


38 posted on 12/15/2025 3:38:35 PM PST by jonatron
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To: V_TWIN

I started volunteering at the food pantry, sometimes
we find that some varmint, likely a rat, has chewed
thru the cardboard for a ‘lucky charms’ find. Rest
assured whatever is leftover usually goes to the local
hog farmer.

Of one thing I’m certain, most of them get away or
stow away with no one normally the wiser. Sure it
could be catastrophic if chewed thru vital plane wiring,
but most of that vital stuff usually gets backup
redundancies and/or is detected before the worst outcome.

Last what would Michael Jackson say, it could be one
of Ben’s descendants!?


39 posted on 12/15/2025 5:00:11 PM PST by BrandtMichaels ( 1st Peter 4:8 "Above all, love each other deeply because love covers a multitude of sins." )
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