Loose crabs in plane's cargo hold briefly delay New York-to-North Carolina flight
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}If passengers on a delayed flight from New York to Charlotte, North Carolina, got a bit crabby, no one could really say they were being too shellfish.
Their flight left LaGuardia Airport about a half-hour late Thursday evening because some live crabs got loose in the cargo hold.
US Airways spokesman Josh Freed tells Newsday (http://nwsdy.li/1rTg05H ) it's unclear how the crustaceans got out of their container or what species they were but there were "a lot of them."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}It's unknown who was shipping them.
Workers swept the crabs out of the hold, and the flight went on its way.