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Posted at 6:33 a.m. PDT Monday, May 4, 1998
 
Flight canceled after bee found in jet
 
TOKYO (AP) -- A bee loose in the cabin of a Japan Airlines jet eluded its
captors for so long that officials at New Chitose Airport in northern Japan
canceled the flight, a newspaper reported today.
 
Ground attendants discovered the bee on board the jet as they were readying
it for departure to the central Japanese city of Nagoya, a JAL spokesman said
today on condition of anonymity.
 
Canceling a flight because of a bee was a first, the spokesman said.
 
The bee eluded attendants who tried to capture it for such a long period
that officials at the airport, on the island of Hokkaido, 475 miles north of
Tokyo, scrubbed the flight out of fear the bee might cause panic among
passengers or an allergic reaction among anyone stung.
 
Passengers were reassigned to another flight to Nagoya.
 
The bee, sprayed with insecticide, was caught about an hour later.
 
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