There are many things that can delay a plane. Some are to be expected, like the flight crew being delayed on another route. Others are less predictable — a passenger mistaking the emergency exit for the bathroom, for example. But on a recent flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Greece, the issue was a winged and feathered stowaway.
In a TikTok explaining a one-hour delay, United Airlines flight attendant Arina Bloom posted a video of the crew trying to chase down a pigeon. It starts near where the food is stored and prepared as the pigeon walks around bobbing its head. Then the video cuts to the pigeon walking down the aisle and into a row of seats with the words, “The moment we lost him.”
