Amazing!! Snake Clings To Qantas Plane During Flight

It was an amazing sight recently in Sydney, Australia when passengers of a Quantas airplane watched as a snake believed to be a a scrub python, engaged in a life-and-death struggle to maintain its grip on the wing of the plane.

The flight took off  on Thursday morning, from the Queensland city of Cairns to Port Moresby, capital of the Pacific island nation of Papua, New Guinea. Despite the winds and chilly altitude temperatures for the two-hour journey, the three-metre long, reptile clung on tightly for dear life.

A passenger, Robert Weber told Fairfax Media on Friday that while people at the front of the plane were unaware of the python, those at the back were “all totally focused on the snake and how it might have got onto the aircraft”.

Unlike the 2006 “Snakes on a Plane” movie starring Samuel L. Jackson, this reptile did not affect the flight.

“There was no panic. At no time did anyone stop to consider that there might be others on board,” Mr Weber said.

He added that the snake had been nestled neatly at first, but once the wind caught the end of its tail, it was “pulling him straight out” and from then on it became a hopeless “life-and-death struggle”.

“I felt quite sad for it, really,” he said.

A Qantas spokesman said, “The snake was seen by passengers once (the plane) reached cruising altitude, It was still on the aircraft when it arrived in Port Moresby but it had died by that stage.”

An expert said the snake was probably a scrub python, Australia’s longest snake and one common in northern Queensland.

Qantas said it had never heard of anything similar happening before, adding that there was no way the reptile could have accessed the cabin.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aKufL8ip8#ws







 

Posted: at 20-01-2013 02:01 PM (12 years ago) | Hero

i really like australia for a holiday but with all these snake,snake .snake it´s scary,n of cause australia´s border security.
too much snake

Posted: at 20-01-2013 03:07 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Wonderfull!
Wondermiddle!
Wonderempty!
SNAKE ON THE PLANE!!!

Posted: at 20-01-2013 06:38 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

..Snake on board..

Posted: at 21-01-2013 02:59 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac