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

Nearly every airline requires animals to be confined inside a carrier when they fly. However, passengers on a Spirit Airlines flight last week were startled to see a rodent scurrying above them inside a cabin light fixture.

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 on a Spirit Airlines flight were horrified to see a "super rat" scurrying around in the overhead light fitting.A passenger captured a video of the rat, which racked up a few million views,

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

In a bizarre incident that has taken social media by storm, passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas to Los Angeles were met with

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.

A rat or other rodent was spotted trapped inside a lighting panel on a Spirit Airlines aircraft flying from Dallas to Los Angeles.