The Air India flight began its route strictly according to the pre-planned schedule, but couldn’t land at the right place.
Just thirty minutes after the start of the flight, the pilots decided to head back to Delhi. What was the sudden reason for the emergency landing?
An unusual free rider was to blame. It turned out to be a large bat. The animal flew around the cabin, periodically penetrating into various parts of the aircraft, where the food supplies were kept.
During the landing, the pilots called the emergency wildlife service. After the complete evacuation of the crew and passengers from the aircraft the workers carried out a complete fumigation.
WATCH: @airindiain flight AI-105 from Delhi to Newark returned midway on Thursday after the pilot reported the presence of a bat onboard to ATC.
Fumigation was carried out and a dead bat carcass was retrieved from seat 8DEF area. pic.twitter.com/haq9B4tzDB
— Asianet Newsable (@AsianetNewsEN) May 29, 2021
Experts believe that this stowaway could have entered the cabin while the loading of food on board.
After the resolution of this incident, the Air India flight successfully departed on the intended route from New Delhi to Newark. And the video with a bat in the cabin of the aircraft became very popular among Internet users and gave rise to many funny jokes.
