Originally Posted by QG

Reminds me of the first RTO ever - a most bizarre tale in itself.

It was the first flight of the millenium - 1/1/2000 (remember all the fuss about the Y2K bug?) Anyway, we boarded at HBA on time (6-7am, can't remember now), taxied out, started the takeoff roll, then suddenly braked and decelerated. Captain advised crew this was not an emergency, and that we were returning to the terminal. It turns out that during the layover, some birds (?sparrows) had got into the cabin. Most had been evacuated, except for one which had surfaced from within the depths of the control panels during the takeoff run. We had a long delay during which the offending creature had to be hunted down, there was even talk of flying an engineer down from MEL to remove panels etc. Eventually all sorted out and we departed uneventfully, albeit much later.

So it wasn't the millenium bug but the millenium sparrow...