Mouse Delays Vietnamese Flight 4 Hours

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A fugitive mouse delayed the departure of a Japan-bound airliner for more than four hours Sunday as technicians hunted down the potential threat, airline officials said.

A passenger spotted the white mouse running on the floor of the plane on an initial leg of the Vietnam Airlines flight, prompting a hunt by about a dozen technicians worried that it could chew through a vital wire.

The mouse was found in a food storage area and the Boeing 777 was cleared for takeoff, said Tran Tien Dung, head of the airline's air safety department.

"This is the first time we experienced something like this," airline spokesman Nguyen Chan said.

Chan said Vietnamese aviation authorities suspect that a passenger brought the mouse on board in hand luggage.

Dung said the airline will caution passengers and increase baggage checks to make sure that no live animals are brought on board.

The mouse was killed, Dung said.

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I wonder if they still served the food after it being found in the food storage area

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Why did they kill it?

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Poor furbaby...wasn't his fault.

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All I want to know is if it was a terrorist mouse? Did it have any gun powder on it's paws? Did he speak a funny language that no one understood? You just can't be too sure with these mice these days. ;-)

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I wonder what "rodent hell" is like. Is it one huge exercise wheel, or does it look more like the home of a kindly old woman with 15 cats?

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