Rat elusive, Boeing-777 flown to Delhi for fumigation

Amritsar: Efforts by the Air India staff to locate in its Boeing-777 plane the rat that had led to an 11-hour delay in the airline’s Toronto-bound flight AI-187 on Saturday morning proved futile even on Monday, with the airline management finally moving the “rat-carrying” plane to New Delhi today where the aircraft would be subjected to thorough examination.
The plane had been parked at Rajasansi airport since Saturday after a rat was was spotted in the plane at 6.30 am by “luggage loaders”. The flight was cancelled and the aircraft parked aside.
Air India officials, led by Air India’s Rajasansi airport manager Ashwani Kumar Arora, tried to find the rat. The “search operation” was abandoned on Monday morning. Finally, Air India officials decided to take the plane to Delhi where its fumigation would be done to ferret out the rat and another rat in a cage placed inside the plane to check efficacy of fumigation.
28/09/09 Varinder Singh/The Tribune

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