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we’ve trawled through the TD Window Seat archives to give you a blast from the past. Here’s some gems from 08 Oct 2014:

seAfooD is usually served on the plane as a meal, not often being rounded up by the crew.

Over the weekend, a US Airways flight from New York LaGuardia to Charlotte due to depart at 6:59pm was delayed due to a shipment of live crabs breaking free of their enclosure in the aircraft’s cargo hold.

While some of the tweets from passengers relating to the delays were hilarious enough, the official line from the airline regarding the delay was due to “some seafood cargo problems”.

One tweet read “Have to catch crabs before we can board plane. Seriously”, with another saying “sound of @USAirways gate agent killing dreams”.

The crustacean­s were rounded up fairly quickly and the plane landed in Charlotte around half an hour behind schedule.

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