PTI
Chennai, Sep 26: A Port Blair-bound Indian flight cancelled its journey minutes before take off from in Chennai on Wednesday as the pilot noticed a rat inside the aircraft.
All 142 passengers had boarded the Airbus A-320 aircraft when the rat was found, airport sources said.
As the pilot refused to take off with the rat on board, all passengers were disembarked and a thorough search was launched for the "ticketless passenger", the sources said.
As the search proved fruitless for hours, the flight was cancelled and the passengers were accommodated in various city hotels, Indian sources said.
They will be flown to Port Blair by another aircraft on Thursday, they said.