U.S. Airways Flight Delayed by Gang of Unruly Crabs
After a summer full of flight delays and disturbances due to pugnacious passengers, it's almost a relief that today's big air travel story involves a box of live crabs instead.
Yes, a LaGuardia-to-Charlotte U.S. Airways flight scheduled to depart at 7 p.m. last night was delayed for about 30 minutes after some crabs—"small, not Alaskan King crabs," an airline spokesman told the Charlotte Observer—became loose in the cargo hold. How many, spokesman? "A decent number of them."
Charlotte magazine collected tweets from disgruntled passengers:
30 min delay from LGA to CLT bc a shipment of live crabs escaped in the cargo area #crabsonaplane
— Kristen Jean (@kris10bourgwaah) October 2, 2014
"Ladies and gentlemen your flight is delayed b/c a box of live crabs spilled out in the cargo bin during flight" @USAirways how is this real
— Anna Scarcella (@Cscarcella) October 2, 2014
"If you are trying to make a connection out of Charlotte tonight that will not be happening" -sound of @USAirways gate agent killing dreams
— Anna Scarcella (@Cscarcella) October 2, 2014
The flight got off the ground at 7:25, after the crustaceans had been dealt with. According to the Observer, the question of "who shipped the crabs and whether they were rounded up again after having been swept out," remains unanswered.
