An Indian police official stands next to an Air India Aircraft on the runway
A snake coiled up under a seat was discovered by crew on an Air India passenger Jet. The snake was disturbed during routine check on the Air India A319 aircraft, which had landed at Delhi airport after a domestic flight from Srinagar. “We were unable to catch it as it slithered around the plane” the airline said on Thursday.
The snake escaped by slipping into an air vent and could not be found even when staff unscrewed panels inside the fuselage, opened all the doors and fumigated the plane. “There was commotion which scared the snake and it went further inside,” an airport official was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.
An airline official denied to the reports that the snake was a venomous cobra. “The aircraft was parked at Delhi airport for maintenance purposes. There was a snake but not a cobra,” he told AFP. “We have no details of what kind of a snake it was, or where it is now. We have taken up this matter with Delhi airport authorities.” He also denied reports that the snake had caused the plane to be grounded or that its next flight, to Mumbai, had been delayed.
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