Photo: TikTok
WATCH: Flight diverted after passengers spot a SNAKE on the plane
A long snake can be seen slithering through an overhead light fixture during a flight in a video shared by a passenger.
Photo: TikTok
You thought this only happens in movies, right? It seems NOT, a flight was recently diverted after passengers spotted a snake on the plane!
A PASSENGER SHARED THIS VIDEO ON TIK TOK
Passengers on an AirAsia flight had their trip rerouted last week after a snake was seen on the plane.
In a video shared on TikTok by user @edal8808, who was a passenger, a long snake can be seen slithering through an overhead light fixture.
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According to a report by NPR, the user wrote in the caption 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.
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THE AIRLINE CONFIRMED THE INCIDENT
AirAsia confirmed in a statement that the incident took place but stated that it was a “very rare incident.”
The airline’s chief safety officer Liong Tien Ling told Business Insider the Captain decided to divert the aircraft to Kuching as a precautionary measure to fumigate the aircraft.
“The Captain took the appropriate action and the flight safely departed for Tawau as soon as possible. The safety and wellbeing of our guests and crew is always our top priority.”
The airline also said the snake injured nobody. It is not clear what type of snake was onboard.
THE VIDEO HAD MILLIONS OF VIEWS SINCE IT WAS UPLOADED
The video has had millions of views on TikTok since it was uploaded three days ago.
Some viewers commented that it was reminiscent of the 2006 Samuel L. Jackson action movie “Snakes on a Plane.”
According to 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.
