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Rogue Rat Delays Air India Flight for 9 Hours
Ryan Boyd August 28, 2017
On Sunday, a rat that snuck aboard an Air India flight scheduled to depart from Delhi to San Francisco delayed the flight and its over 200 passengers for more than nine hours. According to Air India, the rat was discovered as the aircraft was taxiing.
Additionally, the flight crew’s permitted duty hours expired throughout the fumigation process, and the carrier was forced to deploy a new crew to resume the flight.
To read more on this story, go to NDTV.
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This is not the first time this has happened, Ryan. Here is an article posted at FlyerTalk back in 2014: http://www.flyertalk.com/the-tarmac/pack-of-rats-grounds-air-india-flight.html