The BBC reports that a Qantas plane was grounded after 4 baby pythons escaped during a flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne.

Despite being transported in a bag inside a plastic foam box with air holes, the 6 inch snakes somehow managed to escape. It’s not known how, or where they are now.

The report states that the aircraft was fumigated, and the escapees will now be dead. BUT, they are yet to find the bodies. So, if you have a flight with Qantas, be on the look out for dead snakes……

A Qantas official said;

They’re not endangered so a decision was made to fumigate…if these snakes turn up they will be very much dead snakes,

If they turn up?! Surely four snakes can’t just disappear?!

The possibiltity of the snakes being eaten by the remaining eight has been discounted after they were weighed after landing. So, in short, nobody knows what has happened to the four escapees.

This makes me thankful that my airline does not carry live animals! I’m sure there was no risk to the passengers during flight (unlike the awful Snakes On a Plane movie!), but the mystery would still make me uncomfortable…..

It’s important to point out that the snakes are not venomous.

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