About 20 minutes into a 6:15am flight from Cairns to Port Moresby on Thursday, a passenger noticed a snake on the wing
Unfortunately for the snake, as the plane gained altitude, freezing temperatures and high speed of the aircraft took its toll.
The passenger told the flight crew ''There's a snake on the wing … There's its head and if you look closely you can see a fraction of its body.''
The president of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association believes that the snake crawled up inside the landing bay and fell asleep before take-off.
A spokesperson for Qantas Airlines told reporters that this is not a common problem.
According to passengers, the snake hung on for most of the flight. Sadly, though, the snake did not survive landing.
(Sources: News.com.au, The Age)