Two stowaway pigeons caused chaos on a Delta flight, forcing the aircraft to return to the gate. “Watch as chaos erupts aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Saint Paul Minneapolis to Madison, Wisconsin, after two pigeons are spotted flying around the main cabin. The unexpected stowaways caused a delay on Flight 2348, which was carrying 119 passengers and five crew members,” Rawsalerts wrote. WATCH: #WATCH: As Two Pigeons Cause Chaos Aboard Delta Air Lines Flight Forcing the Plane to Turn Back⁰⁰#SaintPaul | #Minneapolis⁰Watch as chaos erupts aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Saint Paul Minneapolis to Madison, Wisconsin, after two pigeons are spotted flying around… pic.twitter.com/nALtBBsMfg — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 28, 2025 Additional footage: A Delta flight had to delay takeoff from Minneapolis after not one, but two pigeons were found inside the plane. Baggage handlers eventually got ahold of the birds and removed them from the flight. https://t.co/3lFYEOTuvL pic.twitter.com/7sEPXQudbT — ABC News (@ABC) May 27, 2025 Per USA TODAY: On Saturday May 24, two stowaway pigeons caused the delay on Delta Flight 2348, which was supposed to fly from Minneapolis to Madison, Wisconsin, according to passenger Thomas Caw, who was onboard the plane during the incident. “My guess is the pigeons were tired of flying and wanted snacks,” said Caw. “They didn’t know this flight to MSN is too short for Delta to offer beverage/snack service.” A passenger told a flight attendant that there was a bird on the plane, and soon, the pilot was announcing to everyone that a pigeon was on board the plane, and that “he had no experience with this situation,” according to Caw. A video recorded by Caw shows a man attempting to capture the bird with his jacket as it was flying through the cabin. The pigeons caused the flight to be delayed by 56 minutes, according to ABC News. Delta has since issued an apology. Delta flight thrown into chaos as stowaway pigeons storm cabin https://t.co/Up7JYYrpvz pic.twitter.com/NhI8LB6e03 — New York Post (@nypost) May 27, 2025 From the New York Post: The pigeon, which was eventually captured, was second of two that emerged on the Wisconsin-bound plane at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, WCCO News reported. “The pilot gets on and says, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we have a wildlife situation on the plane,’” passenger Tom Caw told the outlet. The other feathering stow-away was walking under the seat until a Delta baggage handler picked it up. The two pigeons led to a brief delay Saturday night. Caw told WCCO when he first boarded the flight, “everything seemed normal.” “Then I went to sit down and I overheard a passenger come up to the flight attendant who was standing right by where I was, and she said, ‘I think there’s a pigeon on this plane,’’” he reportedly recalled in reference to the first pigeon. Shortly after, the pilot told everyone onboard that there was another pigeon on the plane after the aircraft was moving toward the runway.