Cobra in cockpit forces emergency landing
Pilot Rudolph Erasmus' life was potentially in danger as the deadly snake slithered up his back mid-airIt felt like just another flight for South African pilot Rudolph Erasmus, until he noticed an extra passenger on his plane at 11,000ft in the air."To be truly honest, it's as if my brain did not register what was going on," he told the BBC.
"As I turned to the left and looked down I saw the cobra [...] receding its head backwards underneath the seat." In the end, he decided the tell them. "I did inform the passengers: 'Listen the snake is inside the aircraft, it's underneath my seat, so let's try and get down to the ground as soon as we can.'"
Mr Erasmus said he tried to find the snake before boarding the aircraft with his passengers, but "unfortunately it was not there, so we all then safely assumed that it must have crawled out overnight or earlier that morning, which was on Monday".
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