Panic ensued when a stowaway mouse hopped a Swedish flight.
The unruly rodent caused the Swedish air operator SAS to cancel a flight from Stockholm to Chicago on Tuesday.
The rodent was spotted ahead of boarding on the 0815 GMT flight but evaded the many mousetraps laid to catch it, SAS said.
Company spokesman Anders Lindstroem said: “For safety reasons, you don’t board when there’s a mouse on board.
“We hope to find it overnight,” he said, adding that the 250 passengers on the Airbus A330 flight had been understanding.
Apart from disturbing passengers, a mouse on board a flight is a potential danger as it could creep in amongst cables, Lindstroem said, adding that a complete inspection would be carried out once the mouse was caught.
The spokesman said it was the first time a mouse had been discovered on an SAS plane.
