Posted on 02/13/2022 9:33:27 AM PST by BenLurkin
Passengers on an AirAsia flight had their trip rerouted after spotting an uninvited passenger on the plane.
In a video shared on TikTok by user @edal8808, what appears to be a long snake can be seen slithering through an overhead light fixture. In the caption, the user wrote that the flight, which was headed from the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur to Tawau, had to instead make an emergency landing in Kuching, according to a translation of the text.
AirAsia did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NPR. However, the airline's chief security officer Liong Tien Ling confirmed the incident in a statement to CNN Türk.
"AirAsia is aware of the incident that occurred on the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tawau on Thursday. As soon as the captain was notified, the plane was diverted to Kuching to be disinfected," he said.
He went on to state that neither passengers nor guests were in danger, according to the outlet.
Passengers were able to continue their journey to Tawau that same day, multinational news network CNA reports.
Still, travelers with upcoming flights have no need to worry that their vacations may turn into a real-life version of Snakes on a Plane. In a statement obtained by CNA, Ling noted that what happened on Thursday's place is not a common occurrence.
"This is a very rare incident which can occur on any aircraft from time to time," he explained.
The video has been viewed more than 2 million times since being posted on Thursday, and footage of the unexpected discovery has since spread to other social media platforms like Twitter. However, it is unclear if the TikTok user who initially shared the video was the one to record it and they did not respond to a request for comment from NPR.
It's not the first time snakes have found their way onto passenger flights. In 2019, a woman traveling home to Scotland from Australia encountered a nasty surprise when she went to unpack and found a snake curled up in her luggage. There was even an occasion where a pilot had to conduct an emergency landing after finding a snake in the cockpit.
That can’t be! Prime Mistake True-dolt was in the House of Commons last week.
But of course, there is more than one snake in the world.
It probably came from the galley and was meant to be served for the in flight meal.
Samuel L. Jackson to a white courtesy phone, please.
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Sum Fang Wong
If they had just had one guy from a rural area on the plane and let him do his thing the snake could have been taken care of quickly and easily.
When I was ten years old our cows used to get out and terrorize the neighborhood that was being built up behind our acreage. The cows had horns so all the urbanites thought that they were vicious bulls with horns. The police even shot one that was harmlessly nibbling on a blackberry bush.
But as long as I got there with a stick or a two by four and a bucket that the cows believed was full of grain, I could get them back inside the fence. But you would not believe the panic before a little boy arrived to save the day.
I thought they said, “steaks on the plane.”
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Well played!
Steaks. You’re lucky to get hamburgers.
Curses! I’ve been on plenty of planes loaded with snakes. A few years back I was going regularly to Wash DC, and the plane coming home Friday evening was loaded with my congressjerks.
I hope you kept some antivenom in your briefcase
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