A TAP plane has been stranded since Tuesday at Ponta Delgada Airport, in the Azores, after 132 hamsters broke free from the boxes they were being transported in and got loose in the hold.
The ground maintenance teams have been trying to recapture all the animals for four days, which has prevented the aircraft from returning to Lisbon for safety reasons. On Saturday, 16 of these rodents, small but capable of destroying electrical cables, were still on the loose inside the Airbus 320, says