Some airlines allow small pets to be with their owners during a flight.

A Delta Airlines plane, however, had unwelcome animals on board that disrupted its Minneapolis to Wisconsin flight by almost an hour on 24 May.

With his phone camera, passenger Tom Caw recorded baggage handlers catching a stray pigeon inside the cabin as the plane was preparing for takeoff. The passengers applauded the catchers as they carried the bird off the flight, ABC 7 reported.

After the 30-minute hullabaloo, the plane began to taxi to the runway of the Saint Paul International Airport when another pigeon emerged inside the cabin. Caw videotaped one of the passengers using his jacket to catch the second “stowaway.”

The airline apologized to the passengers for the inconvenience and the 57-minute flight delay.

Meanwhile, an encounter with a “pig” aboard an Allegiant flight from Orlando, Florida to Hagerstown, Maryland on 26 May sparked the beating of a boy.

Kristy Crampton, 46, of Hagerstown, punched the child passenger, hit him with a water bottle and slammed his head into the airplane window as the plane was readying to depart Orlando-Sanford International Airport, WFTV reports.

Crampton was later arrested at the airport gate and charged with felony child abuse, KKTV reports. She appeared before a local court the following day to post $10,000 bail.

The accused told police and the judge the child had provoked her when he called her fat and Miss Piggy, the female pig character on the “Muppet Show,” and said that she couldn’t fit in the airplane seat, according to KKTV.