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Search For Mouse Delays Vietnam Airlines Flight To Tokyo

Crews Spend Four Hours Hunting Rodent

It wasn't the mouse that roared, per se... but it was a mouse that delayed a Vietnam Airlines flight to Tokyo for more than four hours this weekend.

Vietnamese news sources report a passenger saw the small white mouse running around inside the cabin of the Boeing 777 that had arrived in Hanoi from Danang late Saturday night. Before the plane could take off again for its final destination of Tokyo, crews were sent in to sweep the plane... and kill the mouse.

Trouble was, the 777 is a very big plane... and crews were looking for a very small mouse. Hence, the four-hour delay before the rodent was spotted -- and, presumably, eliminated -- early Sunday morning.

Passengers waited out the search from a nearby hotel. Their luggage was removed from the plane by crews searching for the mouse. Everyone and everything was loaded back onto the plane, and it departed for Tokyo at around 0400 local time.

As for how the rodent got onboard the plane, airline officials believe a passenger brought the mouse onboard, and it then escaped.

FMI: www.vietnamairlines.com

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