Tiny snake delays flight for 24 hours Hundreds of Qantas passengers were delayed for a day after a 20cm snake was found in the doorwell of the plane. 370 passengers were forced to spend the night in a hotel after the non-venomous Mandarin rat snake was discovered. There was concern more snakes would be found on the Japan-bound Qantas flight from Sydney, Australia. The snake was taken to quarantine and euthanised "as exotic reptiles of this kind can harbour pests and diseases not present in Australia", a spokeswoman told Guardian Australia. The snake is an Asian species which feasts on small rodents and is usually active at dawn and dusk. A replacement craft was organised while the original plane was fumigated. Earlier this year a three metre python clung to the wing of a Qantas flight from the northeast coast city of Cairns to Papua New Guinea in January. It was found frozen to the wing when the plane landed.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:46:39 +0000
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