Another Rodent Skyjacking

We brought you the story of the Animal Uprising™ using rodents to hijack airliners back in February. In that incident, a squirrel hijacked a plane to Hawaii. The perpetrator was executed for that offense, incidentally. Now comes word of yet another case of rodents on a plane, so to speak. This time it was a mouse who commandeered a commercial flight.

A passenger spotted the white mouse running on the floor of the plane on an initial leg of the Vietnam Airlines flight, prompting a hunt by about a dozen technicians worried that it could chew through a vital wire.

The mouse was found in a food storage area and the Boeing 777 was cleared for takeoff, said Tran Tien Dung, head of the airline's air safety department.

"This is the first time we experienced something like this," airline spokesman Nguyen Chan said.

As in the incident in Hawaii, the rodent reprobate was summarily executed. It appears that some officials are waking up to the dangers that the animal overlords are visiting on the human race.