On a Delta flight, passengers were intrigued by the commotion at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Local workers gathered on one of the wings of the aircraft, where a colony of clandestine bees had made their home.
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The result was a significant delay in taking off for Atlanta. But what an unusual situation! The bees seemed to want to gossip about the weather conditions at the airport as they refused to leave the aircraft's winglet.
A Delta representative commented to the Houston Chronicle about what happened, ensuring that it was nothing more than a friendly conversation between the insects and the plane.
Among the 92 passengers affected by the incident was Anjali Enjeti, a journalist and writer who reported on social media on efforts to resolve this very peculiar issue.
It wasn't just the people who were there who were bothered by the delay caused by the bees. The comments on the internet also yielded a lot.
“The situation is worrying! The bees are preventing our shipment and the delay is causing us inconvenience. But how to solve it? Don't we need a bee expert to identify the queen and remove her? After all, they're not going to come off the wings while we're taking off, are they?” said one passenger.
Unfortunately, it seems, the airport was not prepared to deal with this situation.
The captain canceled the plan to summon a beekeeper due to lack of permission to touch the plane. And even worse, there was no hose to spray the bees with water, and the firefighters couldn't help either.
Despite desperate attempts to scare the bees away, nothing seemed to work, until someone had the brilliant idea of starting the plane's engine. And would you believe it, it worked!?
The bees finally abandoned the site and the flight was finally able to take off after four hours of delay.
But think about it: all this lost time could have been avoided if Delta had made this decision sooner.
