Mouse Grounds The Flight From Sweden To Chicago

The mouse was spotted before passengers boarded the 0815 GMT flight which, as SAS spokesperson Anders Lindstroem pointed out, has significant safety implications since rodents can creep in among cables on an aircraft and gnaw on them.

'For safety reasons, you don't board when there's a mouse on board,' he explained.

'We hope to find it overnight,' he added, after the flight had been cancelled.

According to Lindstroem, the flight's 250 passengers on the Airbus A330 flight were understanding about the situation as SAS attempted to rebook them onto alternative flights.

The rogue, flight-grounding rodent is the latest in a growing line of creatures to cause such disruption - the most recent being the bat on a plane to Atlanta that led to already-rather-freaked-out passengers being tested for rabies.

There were also the rats that grounded a Qantas jet to Sydney, the jumbo to Manchester delayed for 26 hours because of a missing cat and - who could forget? - the plane forced to make an emergency landing in Russia when a passenger burst naked out of its toilet and ran around for a bit.

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