More than 130 hamsters that were traveling on a plane of the Portuguese airline TAP caused the paralysis of the aircraft, after the rodents escaped from their cages.
The search began after passengers aboard the plane, which was traveling between Lisbon and the Azores islandsthey will disembark and their luggage will be removed.
Hamsters were part of a shipping for a pet store on the island in which there were also ferrets and some birds.
Airport employees discovered that the cages in which the animals were kept were damaged and that 132 of them They wandered around the cargo hold when the Airbus 320 landed in the capital of the Azores archipelago, Ponta Delgada.
The escape of the rodents prevented the plane from returning to the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, where he had started his journeyand the search to find the remaining rodents continued Saturday night, local newspaper Correio da Manha reported.
As sources have informed the newspaper, the animals were accepted on the flight after having been rejected on a previous one because the cages “did not meet accepted standards”. TAP Air Portugal, the airline operating the flight, has not yet made any official comment.
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