Would you like beef, chicken or ... mouse? The unbelievable happened: lunch-horror on SAS flight.

Imagine the scene: the passenger, or rather the passenger in this case, cautiously lifts the foil closing the tray on the main course of his economy meal (chicken, beef, pasta, who knows?), as we all do, always hoping for the best and instead almost always ending up with an ugly-looking and questionable-tasting concoction of protein and vegetables.

This story enters rightfully among the most absurd of the curiosity section of our site, and if you're weak in the stomach you'd better not go any further than the next picture.

Instead, poor her, she didn't even make it in time to see what the airline had offered her, because as soon as she lifted a flap of the foil, From the tray a mouse has sprung out.. Alive and well. Who, of course, ran away. creating panic on Oslo-Malaga (SK 4683) operated by an A320neo from Scandinavian Airlines on Wednesday.

To the point that pilots, partly because keeping a mouse on board for three hours is not good, partly because of the 'habit' rodents have of gnawing on cables and wires, they first turned back toward Oslo, then pointed south, dumped fuel in the stretch of sea just north of the Danish peninsula and have finally landed in Copenhagen., where the unfortunate passengers were transferred to another A320neo and taken to their destination.

The passenger with the mouse 'in her plate' also took it well, at least looking at the photo that her seat neighbor, Jarle Borrestad, posted on her Facebook profile.

A spokesman for SAS went on to explain that. the flight "was diverted to Copenhagen to transfer passengers to a plane immediately available to take them to their destination," adding that "the company is already conducting a full inspection of the aircraft and has initiated an investigation related to the meal packaging processes by suppliers."

Now, there are three hypotheses: sabotage, prank (in bad taste), or chance, the latter only possible if the meal-packing process is completely automated and the rodent found time and a way to sneak into the offending tray without any caterer seeing it.

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