Watch: Swarm of bees delays Surat–Jaipur IndiGo flight take-off by 50 minutes, covers plane’s cargo shutter | Surat News
SURAT: A swarm of bees that decided to cluster on a Surat-Jaipur IndiGo flight, scheduled to depart at 4.40pm on Monday, delayed it by at least 50 minutes on Monday.The airline staff loading luggage on the flight first noticed the bees buzzing together on one side of the aircraft’s cargo compartment shutter, and quickly alerted the airline and airport staff.“We informed the airport’s fire team. They used a jet of water from a fire tender to remove the bees from the open shutter,” an airport official said. Even for the fire team this was their first such encounter, the official said. No passenger or worker was injured in the incident.Many passengers, already aboard the flight, captured on their phones the sight of bees swarming on the cargo compartment shutter, covering one side entirely.
