They desired to avert a bite-mare at 30,000 feet.
Thought snakes on a plane was terrifying? A Mexican flight was delayed for several hours after the cabin was beset by a biblical swarm of mosquitoes, as seen in a video blowing up online.
The mal-aerial assault occurred on October 6 aboard a Volaris flight that was slated to travel from Guadalajara to Mexico City, Storyful reported.
Little did the passengers know, that they weren’t the one flyers within the cabin — a swarm of mosquitos had reportedly stolen aboard the aircraft.
The itch-inducing footage, taken by passenger Elizabeth Esmeralda Minjarez Corona, shows flight attendants frantically waving their arms and crop-dusting the air with insect repellent because the tiny terrorists fly in regards to the cabin like something out of “Jumanji.”
While the flight was initially slated to go away at 4:30 p.m., the biting interlopers forced the plane to postpone its departure time until 7 p.m.
It’s yet unclear how the skeeters infiltrated the 200-skeeter aircraft, nevertheless this isn’t the primary time they’ve boarded a flight at Guadalajara International Airport.
Local media pointed to an identical mile-high mosquito infestation that occurred aboard a Volaris flight in 2019.
“Yesterday I took a flight from @flyvolaris @viajaVolaris and the plane was stuffed with mosquitoes,” wrote Mexican journalist Juan Manuel Jiménez in an X post describing the incident.
Local media reports that the realm where the airport is positioned presents a super environment for the “proliferation of mosquitoes since it is positioned near areas with flooding and abundant vegetation, in addition to some nearby bodies of water which are contaminated. It also has to do with weather conditions.”
This isn’t the primary time animals have wrought havoc within the friendly skies.
Earlier this month, a plane flying from Thailand to Bangkok resembled an aerial Noah’s arc after a white rat and otter smuggled on board by passengers broke free and ran amok within the cabin.
