Snakes on a Plane! Reptile Delays Flight After Sneaking into Cargo

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On July 1, a domestic flight in Australia experienced the rare reptile interruption, after a snake slithered into the aircraft, causing a two-hour delay, per the Associated Press, ABC News, and New York Post. The affected flight was Virgin Australia Flight VA337 from Melbourne Airport to Brisbane.

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00:29a call from Melbourne Airport or from Virgin basically saying there was a snake on a plane,

00:34can you get here as soon as possible because a plane cannot leave the runway until you come

00:39and deal with this.

00:59So there are non-venomous species of snake that you find in Queensland and that's why

01:08I know it was from the Queensland plane and so that's basically the kind of snake it was,

01:13only a foot long so nobody was at risk and the airline staff did an amazing job to do the right thing.

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