AirAsia pilot reroutes flight after passenger finds snake on airplane

• An AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tawau was rerouted to Kuching, Sarawak, on Thursday after passengers discovered a snake slithering behind the overhead lighting fixture.
• “The captain took the suitable motion and the flight safely departed for Tawau as quickly as potential,” Captain Liong Tien Ling, AirAsia’s chief security officer, stated in an announcement. “The security and well-being of our company and crew is all the time our prime precedence. At no time was the protection of company or crew at any danger.”
• The airline fumigated the airplane upon touchdown in Kuching earlier than safely delivering passengers to Tawau.
• The Thursday incident was likened to the 2006 film “Snakes on a Airplane” starring Samuel L. Jackson.

An AirAsia pilot was compelled to reroute an airborne airplane after one of many passengers discovered a snake on board slithering behind a lighting fixture.

The AirAsia flight was reportedly on the best way to Kuala Lumpur from Tawau on Thursday when the pilot was knowledgeable of the undesirable stowaway, CNN reported.

A video posted on-line by a passenger exhibits the snake’s silhouette because it makes its manner by way of.

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“The captain took the suitable motion and the flight safely departed for Tawau as quickly as potential,” Captain Liong Tien Ling, AirAsia’s chief security officer, stated in an announcement, explaining despite the fact that it was a uncommon incidence, these conditions “can happen on any plane occasionally.”

“The security and well-being of our company and crew is all the time our prime precedence. At no time was the protection of company or crew at any danger.”

The flight was instantly rerouted to Kuching, Sarawak. After safely touchdown within the metropolis, the airline fumigated the airplane as a security precaution, Channel Information Asia reported.

The Thursday incident was likened in information tales to the 2006  film “Snakes on a Airplane,” which stars Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agent tasked to escort a witness from Hawaii to Los Angeles. The Jackson movie is the place the well-known quotable line “I’ve had it with these motherf*cking snakes on this motherf*cking airplane” originated.

No additional particulars on how the snake might have gotten onto the airplane have been made out there but.

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