Rats on a plane force Air India to ground aircraft

[hokkien]

NEW DELHI - Air India has been forced to ground one of its planes after crew spotted rats scurrying around the cabin, The Times of India reported.
The plane was on its way from New Delhi to Calcutta when staff found the infestation, the paper said on Tuesday.
"Rats on board an aircraft can lead to a catastrophe if they start chewing up electric wires," the paper quoted an unnamed airline official as saying.
"If that happens, pilots will have no control on any system on board leading to a disaster."
No one at the airline was immediately available for comment, but an Air India official speaking on condition of anonymity said rats on planes were a "common phenomenon" worldwide and could "get in anywhere".
"They follow the catering vans into the plane when they smell the food," the official told AFP.
It is not the first time that India's loss-making carrier has suffered a rodent infestation. Rats reportedly delayed a domestic flight from Mumbai by almost two hours in February, and in 2009 a flight to Toronto was delayed for 11 hours as staff tried to catch rats.

 

[Froggy]

Guess what race, no?
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[Narong Wongwan]

Bollywood can do a movie starring Samuel L Jackson....
Rats on plane

 

[sochi2014]

Lucky rats!!

Free flights in flight entertainment food and drinks!!

 

[Rogue Trader]

Guess what race, no?
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It's a rat race!

 

[Luvurbaht]

Someone must have ratted on them rats.

 

[radon39]

thot snakes eat rats?

 

[Rogue Trader]

Meal time on board Air India...

 

[halsey02]

Meal time on board Air India...

Look like a RC Dinner event for National Day...

 

[Cerebral]

Look like a RC Dinner event for National Day...

Isn't this the temple where they worship rats?

 

[syed putra]

If it was china Airlines, they would have eaten it.

 

[bullfrog]

What's the problem? Just put snakes on board!

 

[halsey02]

Isn't this the temple where they worship rats?

No lah!...thiswas RC Zone X...in AMK GRC... ha ha ha ha, yes, the temple of the rats...there is one, with the monkeys...one with the snakes...all sound just like the PAP members gathering... ha ha ha a

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

Guess what race, no?
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How would u know the race of the RATS?????

 

[palden]

Which is more smelly? Rats or ah Neh? Tried flying air India once. Nearly died of suffocation.

NEW DELHI - Air India has been forced to ground one of its planes after crew spotted rats scurrying around the cabin, The Times of India reported.
The plane was on its way from New Delhi to Calcutta when staff found the infestation, the paper said on Tuesday.
"Rats on board an aircraft can lead to a catastrophe if they start chewing up electric wires," the paper quoted an unnamed airline official as saying.
"If that happens, pilots will have no control on any system on board leading to a disaster."
No one at the airline was immediately available for comment, but an Air India official speaking on condition of anonymity said rats on planes were a "common phenomenon" worldwide and could "get in anywhere".
"They follow the catering vans into the plane when they smell the food," the official told AFP.
It is not the first time that India's loss-making carrier has suffered a rodent infestation. Rats reportedly delayed a domestic flight from Mumbai by almost two hours in February, and in 2009 a flight to Toronto was delayed for 11 hours as staff tried to catch rats.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Which is more smelly? Rats or ah Neh? Tried flying air India once. Nearly died of suffocation.

do rats stink? The fact of the matter is rats get killed around humans

 

[halsey02]

Which is more smelly? Rats or ah Neh? Tried flying air India once. Nearly died of suffocation.

Rats do not smell...you obviously do not know about them, ah nehs & RC members does!!... heh heh heh

 

[butoh6050]

Rats do not smell... ah nehs & RC members does!!... heh heh heh

What if it's a ah neh who is also a RC member...then how?
Gas mask time huh?