Hamsters on the loose: Some 132 hamsters reportedly escaped from cages in the cargo hold and roamed free on an Airbus A321neo that flew from Lisbon to the Azores island of Ponta Delgada last week, CBS News reports. Reports indicated that baggage handlers first noticed damaged cages after the aircraft landed, and then saw the hamsters — intended for a pet shop delivery — running in the cargo hold. The aircraft was taken out of service after its arrival and its crew took around four days to scour the plane for the rodents.

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Not the first time: A Boeing 747 flying from New York JFK to Belgium, was forced to turn around last November after a horse got loose in the cargo hold, and earlier this year a flying squirrel broke loose on a China Eastern Airlines flight and hid in the cabin forcing passengers to temporarily disembark the plane.

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