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The sudden appearance of a live snake on a US airline flight sparked turmoil among business class passengers at the end of a flight from Florida to New Jersey.
The crawling crawler, which turned out to be a harmless garter snake, appeared on Flight 2038 from Tampa shortly after landing Monday afternoon at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
One passenger told local channel News 12 New Jersey that as the plane moved from the runway to the gate, business class passengers started screaming and lifting their feet off the ground.
Port Authority spokeswoman Cheryl Ann Albiz said in an email Tuesday that airport animal control officials and Authority police were waiting for the plane at the gate and took the snake, which was later released into the wild.
She added that there were no injuries and the accident did not affect airport operations, and the plane left Newark at a later time
None of the concerned parties indicated how the snake boarded a commercial airliner
But it certainly reminded some passengers of the 2006 thriller Snakes on a Plane, a fictional story about criminals unleashing dozens of venomous snakes on board a passenger plane in an attempt to kill a murder witness.
The incident was not the first realistic example of a snake on a commercial airliner, as a large snake was found slithering through the passenger cabin on an Aero Mexico flight to Mexico City in 2016, and a snake was seen clinging to the wing of a plane on a flight from Australia to Papua Guinea. new year 2013