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Escaped Monkey Causes 4-Hour Flight Delay

'Slippery little beast' eventually caught

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted May 25, 2012 9:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – Passengers on an Air China flight out of Kennedy Airport were probably perturbed at yesterday’s four-hour delay, but at least there was good reason for it: A monkey had worked its way out of its crate in the cargo hold of the Boeing 747. The Beijing-bound flight was held while Port Authority officers and an airport worker caught the “slippery little beast,” a source tells the New York Post. He was en route to China for medical research.

A monkey, though not the escaped one.
A monkey, though not the escaped one.   (©justDONQUE.images)
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COMMENTS
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justme001
Jun 3, 2012 10:34 PM CDT
He did not want to stay in the cargo hold he wanted in first class!
Rammrodd
May 25, 2012 12:36 PM CDT
Happily, Axelrod & Biden were able to coax him back to his enclosure.
Iffida
May 25, 2012 11:51 AM CDT
Was Mitt on his way to China? 
 

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