Snake on a plane: Qantas passengers amazed as python clings to wing during flight

This is actually quite sad to think about - the poor snake made every effort to stay alive, and they say it struggled to hang on. Poor thing.

Strange news, but good thing this huge snake did not fall of and into the jet engines!

sad start for coming Year of the Snake

I agree Maria! I'm not a fan of snakes but i give respect to this python which showed an amazing desire to stay alive.

If I was the pilot, I would have turned the flight back.

I understand the economics of not turning back, sure, but this is a really sad story and I wish that animal life could be given higher priority. Oh, and unlike southsakai, I am a fan of snakes, within reason.

Snakes are protecting Australian crops. If I am a pilot, I will make emergency landing.

It'll make a nice sanshin.

Mounted Python ...

I wonder how it hung onto the aircraft while still being visible to the passengers? There aren't too many things a snake can use to resist 300mph winds.

In other news: Port Moresby officials have fined Quantas for attempting to illegally import a non-indigenous species into the country. ;-)

The strength this creature portrayed is simply amazing, but I knew this story could not end well given how cold it is at those altitudes and how little air there is. Truly sad... It had to have been a terrible death.

Well thats one way to not have to pay for a plane ticket. I hope the snake is ok though.

They should call him "Dragon" because he is a reptile and he flew, granted he may have cheated by using a human made machine, but hey who could blame him.

Well thats one way to not have to pay for a plane ticket. I hope the snake is ok though.

Umm...

“It was still on the aircraft when it arrived in Port Moresby but it had died by that stage.”

Poor reptile. Sad and funny at the same time. Who says the animal kingdom doesn't have irony.