{"id":298324,"date":"2017-03-02T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=298324"},"modified":"2017-03-02T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:15:00","slug":"stowaway-mouse-grounds-british-airways-heathrow-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/stowaway-mouse-grounds-british-airways-heathrow-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowaway mouse grounds British Airways Heathrow flight"},"content":{"rendered":"
A US-bound plane was unable to take off from Heathrow Airport after a mouse was spotted on board.<\/p>\n
Passengers on the 10:40 GMT British Airways flight to San Francisco were strapped in and waiting to leave when the “rather unusual occurrence” was announced.<\/p>\n
The crew told passengers planes cannot take off with mice on board, and that another flight would be scheduled.<\/p>\n
It eventually left about four hours later.<\/p>\n
One passenger, Carly, said there was “general disbelief” among she and her fellow travellers when the news was broken.<\/p>\n
“I’m not sure people knew how to react,” she said.<\/p>\n
‘Sell the movie’<\/strong><\/p>\n She said they had been told another plane had been found, but the passengers would have to wait several hours for a gate to be found before it could take off.<\/p>\n Some of the flight’s passengers tweeted their reactions.<\/p>\n Matt Watt wrote: “Just had my flight to SFO cancelled because of a mouse on board the plane. Could it not get a visa?? #britishairways”, while @midlandsound wrote a Haiku: “About to fly to SF, There is a mouse on the plane, We all must get off.”<\/p>\n He also wrote: “I’m going to sell this to the movies. It can be the slightly more pedestrian prequel to snakes on a plane. Maybe this is what lured them on?”<\/p>\n