Owl found sleeping inside Virgin plane engine

An owl was recently found napping inside the engine of a Virgin Australia plane in Melbourne.

Flight engineers were surprised to find a stowaway hiding inside the giant engine of a plane when they conducted pre-flight checks.

The team of engineers rescued the barn owl and assessed it before releasing it back into the wild.

The owner of Virgin, Richard Branson, noticed the tweet and responded:

And the Virgin team weren't done with the puns:

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