A flight from Norway to Spain had to make an emergency landing in Denmark after a mouse escaped from an in-flight meal served to a passenger.
The Scandinavian Airlines flight was traveling from Oslo, Norway to Malaga, Spain, CBS News partner BBC News reported.
Passenger Jarle Borrestad told the BBC he was sitting next to the woman whose food the mouse was in. When she opened the food in the box, the mouse rushed out, he said.
He said he pulled his socks over his pant legs to prevent the mouse from crawling up, but stressed that people kept very calm and “were not stressed at all”.
Airline spokesman Oystein Schmidt told AFP that the emergency landing in Copenhagen, Denmark was in line with the company’s procedures, as mice and other rodents can pose a security risk. Airlines usually have strict restrictions on rodents on board, as they can chew through electrical wires, the BBC reported.
– This is something that happens extremely rarely, says Schmidt to AFP.
Schmidt also said in-flight meal providers will be reviewed “to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
Passengers were transferred to another aircraft to resume their journey to Spain. Borrestad told the BBC that the delay only added a few hours to the journey.