Watch: Pigeons flying through cabin disrupt Delta flight out of MSP
It reads like the tepid first draft for an airborne Samuel L. Jackson thriller. A Delta flight headed to Madison from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was disrupted by pigeons on a plane.
On Saturday, May 24, two pigeons made their way into the main cabin of Delta Flight 2348, causing no small amount of chaos.
Tom Caw, a passenger on the flight, posted a video of the incident to Instagram, saying they heard another passenger inform a flight attendant that there was a pigeon on board.
The pilot got on the intercom and "said he had no experience with this situation." They returned the plane to the gate, and staff removed the pigeon.
However, back on the runway, another interloping bird was discovered.
"Pilot said when he radioed the control tower about us coming back due to a pigeon, the guy said that was a first for him," Caw wrote on Instagram. "Pilot told him it was the second time for him—the first being half an hour earlier."
Delta issued an apology for the situation, even though it's not clear how the airline could have done anything about it.
"Delta appreciates the careful actions of our people and our customers to safely remove two birds from the aircraft prior to departure, and we apologize to our customers for the delay in their travel," the company tells Bring Me the News in a statement.
The flight, which had 119 passengers and five crew members, arrived in Madison just 56 minutes later than it was scheduled, according to a Delta representative. That's a pretty good turnaround for a flight with two separate pigeon incidents.
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