Eels on a plane: Slippery specimens escape aircraft at Vancouver airport

Workers astatine Vancouver’s International Airport ran into a astonishing and slithery business complete nan weekend.

Video posted to societal media shows dozens of unrecorded eels squirming connected nan apron aboveground astir an Air Canada level astatine YVR.

The airdrome said crushed handlers were unloading an craft connected Sunday erstwhile a shipment of eels opened and spilled onto nan ground.

Air Canada said successful a connection that nan formation had landed from Toronto and nan instrumentality had accidentally spilled during unloading, allowing immoderate of nan eels to escape.

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They were collected and subsequently repackaged, nan hose said.

It has besides been successful interaction pinch nan customer astir nan shipment.