Commenters on social media are debating whether it was a rat or another type of rodent that hitched a ride on a flight from Dallas to Los Angeles last week

Passengers were left rattled when they spotted a rodent on a recent Spirit Airlines flight. As reported by TMZ , a video circulating on social media captured a rat running along an overhead bin, with its feet and snout visible through an illuminated glass panel.

Passengers were horrified on a recent Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas, Texas, to Los Angeles, California, when a rat was spotted scurrying overhead. In a now-viral video, a rat is seen inside the overhead light of the plane.

A passenger’s jaw dropped when they spotted a sneaky rodent crawling above their heads during a Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas to Los Angeles. The unexpected stowaway was caught scurrying inside the plane’s lighting panel,

Passengers on a Spirit Airlines flight were shocked to see a large rat running through the cabin during the flight.

This is not what you want to see when you look up above your seat on a plane. Forget snakes on a plane — these passengers were panicked by a rodent on an aircraft. Freaked-out flyers spotted what appeared to be a rat running above an overhead bin on a Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas, Texas to Los Angeles, California.

In its concluding remarks, the NTSB determines the cause of the incident to be the “captain’s inadvertent aggressive application of the brakes during taxi which resulted in a sudden stop. Contributing to the accident was the flight attendants’ failure to notify the flight crew of the unsecure cabin.”

Forget snakes on a plane — these passengers were panicked by a rodent on an aircraft. Freaked-out fliers spotted what appeared to be a rat running above an overhead bin on a Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas,