Qantas jet bound for Tokyo from Sydney grounded after snake found

Make no mistake! A 20cm Australian snake can be deadly! Nine out of ten of the world's most dangerous snakes live in Australia and all are deadly from birth. A good call by authorities.

Cue the Samuel L Jackson jokes.

Snakes on a Plane ;)

Full body scanner next? I hope not!

Agree with disillusioned but a 20cm snake that is not easily identified is most likely from another part of the world since customs would be pretty clued up about most species. That being the case its its possible that by the time they figured out what antivenin to give you its too late. Its silly to assume a small animal is not dangerous.

Why'd it have to be snakes?

Maybe the snake was so small they thought it might be a large insect? I'd feel better if they left the snake with herpetologists.

a 3-meter (10-foot) python in January clung to the wing of a Qantas flight

Maybe that was his "papa" ? (In which case, he was probably trying to find him...)

"Cue the Samuel L Jackson jokes"

I've had it with these mother fin' snakes on this motherfin' plane!

Enough is enough!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLaX8UvVUQw

the fumigation is probably more deadly.

kill it!

@Disillusion: You are right. In Japan, there was a poison snake mamushi. head is wider than body. Dokuhebi that bite people.

@gogogo - exactly what I was thinking!!!

Oh I bet they know what kind of snake was on board. Like Disillusioned mentioned earlier, probably one of the top 10 most dangerous in the World.

hisssssssssssssss

I wonder how the snake got there.

A mandarin Rat Snake. Found in China suspected to have come singapore. Not dangerous to man. Killed to stop non native species entering Oz

http://news.sky.com/story/1145261/snake-on-a-plane-qantas-passengers-stranded

A herpetologist is needed to id the snake.

Well, I carry my 20cm snake on every flight and I've never been asked to de-plane. Weird that they had to!

Enough is enough!

with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!