Mouse Grounds Departure
A mouse upset the best-laid plans of an airline and nearly 250 passengers in the Philippines, grounding a plane for 13 hours while engineers tried to smoke out the rodent. The plane was preparing for take-off from Manila airport earlier this week when a crew member spotted the mouse scampering across an aisle in the economy class section. The captain ordered the passengers to disembark while maintenance staff fumigated the aircraft and laid traps, but the mouse was nowhere to be found. The Doha-bound aircraft eventually took off 13 hours late, presumably with the mouse still on board, dead or alive.
Note a few interesting facts in this incident – it happened in the ECONOMY section or more commonly known as the ‘poor section’ of the aircraft. After the 13 hour ordeal they still took off hoping that the mouse had disappeared, maybe to return a few days later to haunt the crew again.
Update 2-hrs later (motivated after FunBie’s Comment to this post) – Now lets picturise a mouse found on a PIA flight out of Karachi, The crew in such situations will almost instinctively call in the ‘Jamadar’ (Janitor) on duty. The ‘Jamadar’ would walk typically with the ‘Jharoo’ (Broom) conveniently riding on his right shoulder, walk to towards the offending toilet, slam open the door and start whacking everything in sight, 5 minutes later close the door, and declare an all clear rodent-free flight. No Off-Loading, No fumigation, No Traps, just our typical Jammadar-Jahorro-Wielding-Chooha-Exterminator-Desi-Style. That’s PIA for you. Can you picturise anything different?
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Atleast they care for there people! and that too of the Economy class, i mean had it been a similar case in Pakistan,they wouldnt have even waited for 13 minutes! Anyways lets see how the mouse creats hell for them in the next flight!
lol…no I really can’t picturise a different scenario on a PIA flight…
It’s just a MOUSE for crying out loud … tell them it’s dead and when someone screams, you know where your mouse is! ;)
You know what could have happened if a mouse had gotten on a PIA flight.
The pilot takes the plane up, opens the doors and everyone who hasn’t got the seatbelt on goes out and as the mouse didn’t have a proper seat, bye bye mousee.
Nice piece, i would guess if it was PIA they wouldnt even bother with the jamadar, Iv had some strange experiences with them, i cant imagine how the great people to fly with are still flying.