Jon Endresen, in charge of emergency operations at the airport, said that employees formed a human chain to steer the animal away from the runway, Aftenposten reported Wednesday. He added that, luckily for the moose, no flights were scheduled to take off or land Tuesday afternoon at the time the moose appeared.

"We had to get the moose out of the runway area in one way or another," he said. "Luckily we didn't have to shoot it."

Kristiansand is one airport that has not been affected by a strike that has disrupted air traffic at many other Norwegian airports.

Rune Solnordal, a witness who managed to get some pictures of the moose, described it as looking "a bit panicky."

"I can understand that very well," he told the local newspaper, Fædrelandsvennen.