The Independent

Passengers on a plane in the United States were stunned when a large pig boarded their flight.

A woman carrying the hog joined the US Airways flight out of the state of Connecticut this Wednesday.

Jonathan Skolnik, a US academic who was a passenger on the flight, told ABC News he initially mistook the pig for a duffel bag.

“But it turns out it wasn’t a duffel bag,” he said. “We could smell it and it was a pig on a leash.”