When flight no AI-187 Delhi-Amritsar-London-Toronto, was grounded when a rat jumped onto the plane while the passengers were boarding the aircraft in Amritsar. The flight was delayed for eleven hours...
And one week later when a rat (maybe the same, hooked on flying?) on the AI Riyadh-bound plane at Calicut airport was spotted by one of the cabin crew .....
from dnaindia.com:
The engineers are inspecting the plane and a relief aircraft is being dispatched from Mumbai to ferry the stranded passengers to their destination, an Air India spokesperson said.
The flight was scheduled to take off from Calicut airport at 2 pm. "A cabin crew spotted a rat in the aircraft, following which all the passengers were off-loaded. The engineers have been called in to inspect the aircraft," the spokesperson said.
Since there is no fumigation facility available at the Calicut Airport and a physical inspection would take time, a relief plane along with crew is being worked out from Mumbai, the spokesperson said, adding all the passengers have been lodged in hotels. Engineers and technical staff of the airlines apprehended that the rat could damage the wiring.