'For the 1st hour, it was really novel': Raccoon delays Air Canada flight

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency ) A raccoon stuck inside an Air Canada jet delayed a Toronto-bound flight for several hours on Thursday at Saskatoon's airport.

The animal was apparently, according to the airline, hidden inside the hose of an air conditioning unit when a ground crew connected the unit to the plane.

The raccoon then "scampered up and into the duct system," of the Embraer E190, said spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick in an email to CBC News.

Flight AC1126 was supposed to take off at 2:50 p.m. CST.

Instead, passengers like Damien Lee watched the drama unfold from the terminal.

"For the first hour, it was really novel," said Lee, a University of Saskatchewan assistant professor headed to Toronto to hunt for a new apartment. "No one's ever seen anything like this."

But after three hours people were "starting to get a little more cranky, a little less interested," he said.

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