The hamsters were reportedly part of a delivery for a pet shop on the island which also included ferrets and some bird and were found when baggae handlers opened the cargo hold
The little creatures crates were found empty when baggage handlers opened the cargo hold of the Airbus321neo plane, which was travelling from Lisbon to Ponta Delgada, on Portugal’s Sao Miguel Island.
Read more:RTE Dancing With The Stars pro found dead at home days after being discharged from hospitalIt took maintenance staff at Ponta Delgada Airport until Sunday to find the last 16 hamsters on the plane. Aviacao TV said: "“Upon landing, the teams responsible for baggage collection noticed that the boxes had been damaged and that rodents were loose.”A cargo pilot shared on TikTok - @CargoPilot747 - that a flight he did in 2017 was cancelled due to escaped hamsters, too.
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