In Brief: Former Heavyweight Champ Among Those Stranded by Mouse Sighting on Emirates Flight
Jesse Tabit June 15, 2015
Former heavyweight champ David Haye was among the many Emirates customers left stranded Sunday after a mouse was spotted in the cabin of their flight to Dubai. The sighting occurred while the Boeing 777-300ER was on the tarmac at Birmingham Airport (BHX).
The boxer took to social media, claiming he just started to settle into his seat when a fellow passenger began screaming onboard.
On tarmac & flight got cancelled as tiny mouse running around cabin.So spending another night. What’s hot in Birmingham tonight? #LetMeKnow
— David Haye (@mrdavidhaye) June 14, 2015
Cabin crew reportedly spent about half an hour attempting to catch the mouse, but the chase ended when the pest crawled into a vent, prompting the airline to cancel the flight. According to Emirates, affected passengers were booked into hotels overnight and “engineering and cleaning teams are working to clear the aircraft to re-enter service.”
For more information on this story, visit Daily Mail.
Update: An earlier version of this story erroneously reported the incident occurred at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM). It has been updated to show the incident occurred at Birmingham Airport (BHX)
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Really? EK now flies to Birmingham Shuttlesworth (Alabama)? I could have sworn they served the original Birmingham (BHX). You know, the one in the UK?
Isn't that the wrong airport? I didn't know that there would be demand from Alabama to Dubai ;)