One of the passengers, Mike Schmidt, took the video of the bat flying around the cabin before it was finally trapped in the plane’s back lavatory.
Jarek Beem, a spokesperson for Delta Connections partner Atlantic Southeast Airlines, confirmed that flight 5121 did in fact return to Madison after a ‘flying animal’ was reported in the cabin, and was searched before flying out again. ‘We were not able to confirm if it was a bird or a bat,’ he said.
I am sure it was a bat. I can tell by the pixels.