We've seen snakes on a plane, bees on a plane and even mice.
Now you can add birds to that list.
According to the Guardian, a British Airways flight scheduled to fly from London's Heathrow Airport to Newark, New Jersey was grounded Monday after a blackbird made its way into the cockpit.
Crew members and airport ground staff spent several hours making multiple attempts to remove the bird, all to no avail.
"As the plane reached its starting position, a blackbird flew into the face of the pilot and started flying around the cockpit," passenger Anna Dolganov told the Guardian.
Dolganov said the captain kept passengers updated on the crew's efforts to locate and remove the bird. "Our feathered friend is still at large," said Dolganov, quoting the captain.
Airport staff even went so far as to play a special recording called "starlings in distress" in hopes of scaring the bird out of the plane.
Unfortunately, it never reappeared and the flight was eventually canceled. Passengers were transferred to a later flight.
"When it comes to flying, we're the experts, so it's not surprising this bird wanted to hitch a ride on one of our 12 daily flights to New York. We could not help him out this time, but after a short delay, we made sure our non-feathered customers got to the Big Apple as soon as we could," a British Airways spokeswoman told the Guardian.
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Earlier this year, a mouse delayed a British Airways flight at Heathrow Airport for a whopping four hours, leading the U.K.'s flag carrier to issue a similarly humorous statement.
"We know almost everyone wants to fly with us to San Francisco, but on this occasion, there was one very small customer who we had to send back to the gate."
At this point, it's anyone's guess as to which animal will be the next to attempt to hitch a transatlantic flight.
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