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Snakes on a plane! Flight from Sydney to Tokyo grounded after a reptile is ...

  • Staff found the eight-inch unidentified snake in the passenger cabin

  • The find of the small reptile led to 370 passengers being grounded in Sydney


By

Anna Edwards




PUBLISHED:


04:44 EST, 23 September 2013




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UPDATED:


02:15 EST, 24 September 2013




A plane had to be grounded after a snake was discovered on a Qantas Boeing 747 airliner.


The finding of the small reptile led to 370 passengers being grounded in Sydney overnight, the airline said today.


Staff found the eight-inch unidentified snake in the passenger cabin near the door before passengers were due to board at Sydney International Airport for a flight to Tokyo, Qantas said in a statement.


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The small snake forced the grounding of a Tokyo-bound Qantas flight in Sydney



Australia’s flagship airline said the passengers were accommodated in hotels overnight and left Sydney on a replacement plane this morning.


The snake was taken by quarantine officials for analysis.


The Australian Agriculture Department said in a statement the snake was with entomologists and had not yet been identified.


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Snakes on a plane! The aircraft had to be grounded after staff discovered the slithery stowaway


Neither the department nor the airline offered any explanation of how the snake might have come aboard.


No details of its likely fate have yet been made public.


The jet had been on an airport tarmac since it arrived in Sydney from Singapore on Saturday.


While snakes rarely pose aviation hazards, on January a 10ft python clung to the wing of a Qantas flight from the north-east coast city of Cairns to Papua New Guinea.


The python was dead but still attached to the wing when the two-hour flight ended in the national capital Port Moresby.


 






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Sean,


Adelaide,


8 hours ago


It’s not an Aussie snake.



Grumpster,


Gympie,


15 hours ago


all because of an eight inch snake?? surely that could of been contained on board…===== Given the size, it could have been a juvenile, in which case there could have been a whole heap of them, maybe even the mummy snake. There are also bio security factors, not to mention snakes could have got caught up in the plane’s wiring and causing a dangerous situation, and to one other commentator, it is not a carpet snake.



Richard,


Wimborne, United Kingdom,


16 hours ago


Looks like just a file photo. Not necessarily the actual snake.



Manor,


Milton Keynes,


17 hours ago


Ryanair would have charged it £75 to print a ticket !!



M52,


Marlow, United Kingdom,


18 hours ago


“Was it a Boe-ing constrictor?


- Anne , Peterborough, 23/9/2013 13:39″ EXCELLENT! ___________ Re the article: “The Australian Agriculture Department said in a statement the snake was with entomologists” Err, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to give it to a herpetologist or an ophiologist??



AJ,


Dorset, United Kingdom,


18 hours ago


A very young Mandarin Rat Snake



Drago,


London, United Kingdom,


19 hours ago


Trevor, that is a Mandarin Rat Snake – a harmless snake from Asia not Australia. And snakes are not poisonous they are venemous.



Auldyin,


Toronto Canada,


19 hours ago


The snake is with entomologists according to the article. Why would experts on insects be involved. Shouldn’t it be with herpatologists.



Gordon,


Leeds,


20 hours ago


qantas has been slacking on security and safety all this while – substitute , berlin, Germany, 23/9/2013 14:24 And your evidence to substantiate this statement ????



LinG,


Weston-super-Mare,


20 hours ago


Australia has some awful snakes, but when I went there with my Australian husband I tried for 6 weeks to prove to him that snakes were all over the place…guess what, I didn’t see one.



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