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Not sure of the source of this story, but I think it is Thanh Nien...

Last Updated: Sunday, December 16, 2007 14:00:38 Vietnam (GMT+07)

Scorpions run loose on Vietnam Airlines flight
Six scorpions were found crawling aboard a Vietnam Airlines flight on
Monday, the carrier reported Wednesday.

Passengers on the Hanoi-bound flight were evacuated just after boarding
when two scorpions were found in the aisles.

Nguyen Long, a passenger on the flight originating in Da Nang, told
Thanh
Nien that he had glimpsed "a small black thing" dashing across the aisle

before takeoff.

After the stow-away arachnids were captured by flight attendants, a
two-hour cabin and luggage check ensued.

No more scorpions were found, the passengers re-boarded and the plane
departed.

However, once the plane reached Hanoi, four more scorpions were found by

passengers in an overhead compartment, said Huynh Thi Tuong Van, an
official from the Vietnam Airlines' Central Vietnam office.

Long said the last four scorpions were caught by passengers using the
plane's convenience bags as other passengers shouted in fear.

The Boeing 777 had previously flown from Hanoi to Da Nang, and had been
cleaned before boarding time, said Van.

The incident was the first time scorpions had been found on board a
Vietnam Airlines flight, she said.

She admitted that the airline had not concluded where or how the
scorpions
had boarded the aircraft.

In April, a Vietnam Airlines flight to Tokyo was delayed after a
passenger
told airport officials his white mouse had gone missing en route from Da

Nang to Hanoi.

The mouse was found in a food compartment in the Boeing 777's galley and

was destroyed a day later when its owner did not return to claim it.
Reported by Dieu Hien