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Flying Squirrel strikes!
Animal saboteurs are striking back at polluting aircraft ... or so we can fondly believe...
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The pilots of American Airlines Flight 176 heard something moving around in the space over the cockpit of their Boeing 777 while flying across the Pacific one day mid-February. They diverted the Tokyo-Dallas flight to Honolulu, where they made an emergency landing.
Their stowaway was a squirrel.
"You do not want a varmint up in the wiring areas and what-have-you on an airplane. You don't want anything up there," said AA spokesman John Hotard. Perhaps the squirrel would gnaw through the aircraft's wiring or cause other problems. American Airlines officials say they don't know how or where the squirrel boarded the flight.
Flight 176's 208 customers were ultimately relayed to their final destinations. The saboteur, however, was destroyed - as a rabies risk. Or perhaps they didn't want other rodents getting the same idea...
Their stowaway was a squirrel.
"You do not want a varmint up in the wiring areas and what-have-you on an airplane. You don't want anything up there," said AA spokesman John Hotard. Perhaps the squirrel would gnaw through the aircraft's wiring or cause other problems. American Airlines officials say they don't know how or where the squirrel boarded the flight.
Flight 176's 208 customers were ultimately relayed to their final destinations. The saboteur, however, was destroyed - as a rabies risk. Or perhaps they didn't want other rodents getting the same idea...
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