They might not be cold-blooded, venomous snakes, but mice are still scary to a lot of people, especially when a herd of 80 of them escapes into the cabin of a plane at 28,000 feet. A male passenger on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight, from Riyadh to north-eastern town of Tabuk, somehow managed to get the scores of rodents past security in his carry-on bag. Part-way into the flight they staged an escape and began stampeding around the cabin; the BBC reports that some even fell onto passengers’ heads. Protestations of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the contrary, the basic premise of Snakes on a Plane is seeming a lot less implausible right now.
– “Mass mouse escape on Saudi plane” (BBC)
Previously:
– “Snakes on a Plane: the Cold, Slithery Truth“
Posted on Dec 15, 2006 05:15 PM by kristin
