Snakes Alive!

it was almost like a scene from the film,

but this time the snake was outside the aircraft, Qantas flight QF191 was about 20 minutes into its 6.15am flight from Cairns to Port Moresby on Thursday when a woman pointed outside the plane and told cabin 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.'' thought to be a scrub python, the longest snake in Australia, the snake took a battering from 400km/h winds and at that cruising altitude it was minus 12 degrees outside, deifying all odds the snake survived the flight, but sadly died and was removed from the plane by ground staff,

the president of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, Paul Cousins, said: 'it appears as though the snake has initially crawled up inside the landing bay, maybe housed himself in there, and then crawled into the trailing ledge flap assembly, the snake would have been comfortable there but after the plane took off and the flaps moved back, it was probably shaken by the noise and vibration, once it moved, it was caught in the wind, Mr Cousins said it would not have been possible for the snake to reach the cabin from its original location, a Qantas spokeswoman said: "We have never heard of this happening before.''