Last night United’s San Francisco – Newark redeye, flight UA1796, was delayed for a much shorter period of time than you’d expect when when a bird found itself trapped and flying around inside of the airline’s Big Metal Bird.
The aircraft pushed back about half an hour late, made up time in the air, and arrived at Newark 12 minutes behind schedule (anything within 15 minutes is considered on time).
#CNNBreakingNews Alert: #PETA protesting @united after live bird trapped in cabin (jokinggggg) but yes there’s a bird on my plane. #unitedairlines #travel #flight #sfo #sfoairport pic.twitter.com/KFINYW9ILO
— Jasreen Gupta (@jasreen_kg) September 21, 2018
It’s actually not that uncommon for birds to fly with people in an aircraft. Qatar Airways even has a bird policy. Each is permitted to bring one dead animal on the plane because they’re allowed one carrion.
In fact birds can be more dangerous when they’re outside of a plane than when they’re inside.
ALERT Impressive photos of Badr Airlines Boeing 737 bird strike yesterday in Sudan https://t.co/tYW78uBKpn pic.twitter.com/CctrPOmAwf
— AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) September 25, 2017
United’s Newark-bound stowaway was captured and released. When it arrived at Newark on its own it declared, “boy are my arms tired.”
You should do stand-up Gary!
Glad to know our “avian handling classes” are working.
After our poor Dr Dao incident we are currently requiring all GA’s, FA’s and flight deck personnel to learn how to handle ferrets and squirrels.
BTW, besides Air Marshals we decided to add a veterinarian to most flights. (The additional cost is covered by the recent increase in baggage fees)
Groaaaan… “One carrion…”