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| Snake on Qantas plane comes out on video | Snake on Qantas plane comes out on video |
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| The comparisons with Snakes on a Plane, the movie, were inevitable. | The comparisons with Snakes on a Plane, the movie, were inevitable. |
| Stunned Qantas Airways passengers watched out of their windows as a large scrub python clung to a plane's wing during a two-hour flight from Australia's north-eastern city of Cairns to Papua New Guinea. | Stunned Qantas Airways passengers watched out of their windows as a large scrub python clung to a plane's wing during a two-hour flight from Australia's north-eastern city of Cairns to Papua New Guinea. |
| The 3-metre (10ft) python fought to stay on the plane, pulling itself forward only to be pushed back by the frigid high-altitude wind, as cold as -12C. | The 3-metre (10ft) python fought to stay on the plane, pulling itself forward only to be pushed back by the frigid high-altitude wind, as cold as -12C. |
| Passenger Robert Weber videotaped the struggle and told Australia's Fairfax Media that the wind whipped the snake against the side of the plane until it was killed, leaving a bloody smear. | Passenger Robert Weber videotaped the struggle and told Australia's Fairfax Media that the wind whipped the snake against the side of the plane until it was killed, leaving a bloody smear. |
| The python was still attached when the plane landed in Port Moresby but a Qantas spokesman said it was dead on arrival. | The python was still attached when the plane landed in Port Moresby but a Qantas spokesman said it was dead on arrival. |
| The 2006 Hollywood thriller Snakes on a Plane starred Samuel L Jackson and the plot needs little elaboration. | The 2006 Hollywood thriller Snakes on a Plane starred Samuel L Jackson and the plot needs little elaboration. |
| Snake experts said scrub pythons were known to hide in confined spaces to wait for prey and this might have been how it ended up inside the wing. | Snake experts said scrub pythons were known to hide in confined spaces to wait for prey and this might have been how it ended up inside the wing. |
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