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I saw this on the USA Today web site:
The pilots of American Airlines Flight 176 likely knew it couldn't be a good thing when they "heard something skittering about in the wire-laden space over the cockpit" of their Boeing 777 while flying across the Pacific, writes The Associated Press. So AA's Tokyo-Dallas flight diverted to Honolulu, where it made an emergency landing to get the problem checked out. The culprit? "A stowaway squirrel," says AP. "You do not want a varmint up in the wiring areas and what-have-you on an airplane. You don't want anything up there," said AA spokesman John Hotard.
He told AP pilots were concerned the "varmint" could gnaw through the aircraft's wiring or cause other problems."So, as a precaution, we diverted," Hotard explained. AA officials say they don't know how or where the squirrel boarded the flight. The jet had flown non-stop to Tokyo from New York prior to the Dallas flight. Flight 176's 208 customers were ultimately rebooked to their final destinations. But, for the squirrel, AP writes that Honolulu "proved to be the squirrel's final destination. Fearing it may have been carrying rabies, authorities had the rodent killed."
The pilots of American Airlines Flight 176 likely knew it couldn't be a good thing when they "heard something skittering about in the wire-laden space over the cockpit" of their Boeing 777 while flying across the Pacific, writes The Associated Press. So AA's Tokyo-Dallas flight diverted to Honolulu, where it made an emergency landing to get the problem checked out. The culprit? "A stowaway squirrel," says AP. "You do not want a varmint up in the wiring areas and what-have-you on an airplane. You don't want anything up there," said AA spokesman John Hotard.
He told AP pilots were concerned the "varmint" could gnaw through the aircraft's wiring or cause other problems."So, as a precaution, we diverted," Hotard explained. AA officials say they don't know how or where the squirrel boarded the flight. The jet had flown non-stop to Tokyo from New York prior to the Dallas flight. Flight 176's 208 customers were ultimately rebooked to their final destinations. But, for the squirrel, AP writes that Honolulu "proved to be the squirrel's final destination. Fearing it may have been carrying rabies, authorities had the rodent killed."
