Rat on board AI flight causes delay

Thiruvananthapuram: The departure of Air India's AI 923 flight to Riyadh was delayed by more than four hours last evening after a rat was spotted in the aircraft, airport officials said today. A passenger noticed the rat when the Thiruvananthapuram-Kozhikode-Riyadh flight was ready to take off at 3 pm. The passengers were asked to disembark and the airline authorities carried out fumigation to trace the rat. It was finally caught after a three-hour search and the flight took off at 7.35 pm, they said.
04/02/10 Press Trust of India

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