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This 3m-long python flew from Cairns, Australia, to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, attached to the wing of a Qantas’ passenger airplane. Sadly, the poor snake didn’t survive the trip, which lasted about 90 minutes. Warning: the video is hard to watch. Viewer discretion is advised.
One of the passengers noticed the python violently shaking on the left wing about ten minutes after takeoff. The crew member who got the warning from the passenger was like, “you’ve got to be kidding.” According to Qantas spokesperson Thomas Woodward, “the snake was seen by passengers while the aircraft was cruising. The most likely scenario is that the snake had taken refuge on the exterior of the aircraft overnight.”
The snake — an Amethystine python — didn’t survive the hard trip, killed either by the 248mph wind (400km/h) or the temperature of 10.4F (-12C). When they arrived it was still hanging from the wing, dead.
The plane didn’t suffer any damage, landing safely at Port Moresby. After they retired the body, and engineers inspected the wing, the Bombardier Q400 was cleared for flight.
And yes, I have to say it: MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE. [Reuters and The Star]
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“Warning: the video is hard to watch. Viewer discretion is advised.” – You are not wrong there Jesus, the stream was very stop/start and the camerawork was awful.
At least the video played for you. Where I work it is very hard to watch as it just won’t let it stream.
Well you can’t say you weren’t warned
True True.
Darn, it’s home time.
Probably won’t be commenting till Monday now. I’ll practice my commenting skills in front of the mirror to try and improve anyway.
Ta ta for now.
Won’t play for me either. What is shit awful platform, and where has good ol’ YouTube gone?!
Ooops. Meant ‘this’ not ‘shit’… I guess it was a Freudian Slip
I have no love for snakes!
not a good way to die, bet it shit itself
Poor little bugger.
I wouldn’t feel that sorry for him, I’m sure he’s well paid for writing these articles even if they must be a bit soul destroying
ZING!
Poor snake
I would have thought that with those temperatures and it being a cold blooded animal it wuuld have gone into a coma type state and then died
very rare for living creatures to survive at those altitudes, quite often people trying to stow away in cargo holds freeze to death and lose consciousness due to the pressure changes. ‘~’
How the fuck do you miss a snake like that when checking the aircraft before take off? Just proves really on these short quick turned around flights that they don’t look.
Really Sad!
“Snakes on a Plane” is far worse, yet strangely watchable. Here is a quote http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/quotes?qt=qt0377073