Hundreds of passengers spend night in hotel after Mandarin rat snakediscovered before Tokyo flight begins boarding
Qantas appears to have a snake problem. For the second time this year a snake has been found trying to hitch a lift on a plane, this time forcing hundreds of passengers to spend a night in a Sydney hotel room instead of jetting off to Japan.
About an hour before the 9.30pm QF21 flight to Tokyo’s Narita airport was due to board, a small snake was discovered in the plane’s doorway. At just 20cm long the Mandarin rat snake was not a worthy foe of Samuel L. Jackson but, given that there could have been others on the plane, the 370 passengers were put up at a Sydney hotel overnight.
“The snake was taken to quarantine to determine where it came from, and a replacement aircraft – a B747 – operated a replacement service to Narita this morning at 10.15,” a spokeswoman told Guardian Australia.
As to whether it was the only serpent on board, Qantas didn’t take any chances. “They used another aircraft to operate that service and the existing B747 will be fumigated before re-entering service,” the Qantas spokeswoman said.
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