Flying Creature Diverts Plane

Too bad they didn't just let the plane continue on after getting the bat in the lavatory.

What an entire plane full of a$$holes. Don't try and catch the poor thing or give it a place to land, just swat at it lazily with your in-flight magazines. It's scared to death, just stop chasing it and let it land somewhere.

I agree, it's a freaking bat. It's just scared, why do you need to try to kill it?

I am pleased to see others with some sanity making comments here. A healthy bat in flight is clearly no threat (i.e., not rabid, or it would be sluggish) and in this case, terrified. I have been in closed rooms with bats, which can potentially land "in your hair" -- the favored hysteria -- only if one freaks out and jumps into its flight path. Stand still and they'll fly right over you. Please, I beg people, be nice to bats. They are gentle, sociable, beneficial creatures and reproduce very slowly, so every one is precious.

It's just like a post-9/11 airline to consider this a "state of emergency" and divert the plane back, wasting everyone's time.
Two things:
1) It was a bat. A simple, harmless bat. If you think it would've attacked you, you've been watching WAY too many movies. Damn thing just wanted away from all the mouth-breathers it was flying over.
2) Since we've (they) decided to barricade the pilots into the almighty tomb (known as a cockpit to you and me), there is no way in HELL the bat would've actually caused ANY hindrance to the pilots which would jeopardize the safety of the passengers.

Someone MUST be held accountable for such decisions. Just because they are "in charge" does not mean they make the best decisions. I would've insisted local law enforcement and local airline executives or representatives meet us at the terminal when we land so we could've discussed responsibility and how to best rectify the matter.

In other words, someone fucked 'up, and now I'm late.

The bathroom. The batroom. Sigh.

Bat on a plane?

How do you not find the bat when you know it is in the lavatory?

That's a Gremlin.

At least it wasn't on the wing.

Was Bruce Wayne in this airplane? :P

I think those squealing women slapping that poor bat around with their newspapers should be receive the exact same treatment from an angry silverback gorilla with a rolled up Cosmopilitan magazine so they can see what it feels like to be attacked by something way larger and way stronger than they for no reason other than cohabitating the same area.
Wonder why it didn't get found? It probably crawled somewhere to die, poor thing.

OK heres what I think it's been a while since I flew on a plane but the old ones the toilet was open it never shut was just a hole to the blue chemical stuff, I'm thinking it accidently flew in there looking for a way out. Which really sucks for the bat. Poor guy, horrible way to go. Death by chemical toilet.

Get those motherf*ckin bats off my motherf*ckin plane!