Swarm of bees delays flight at Surat airport
Yagnesh.Mehta@timesofindia.com 08.07.2025
Surat : A swarm of bees that decided to cluster on a SuratJaipur 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. “We are unsure where the bees came from,” an airline official said. There are no known beehives on the airport premises, he said, adding, “Our teams, along with security experts, conducted a thorough inspection of the airport in March. No beehive was found at that time.”
50-MINUTE DELAY: No passenger or worker was injured in the incident
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