At least it is a non-poisonous snake. I've heard of
copperheads and rattlesnakes getting into airplanes. It
should make for a more complete pre-flight.


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James H. Macklin
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|I do not usually like to copy and paste, but this I could
not resist.
| Makes me wonder how I would react. I am not a fan of
snakes.
|
|
| Pilot Fights Black Snake Stowaway on Plane
| Friday, June 02, 2006
|
| CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air
when he
| discovered a stowaway peeking out at him from the plane's
instrument panel
| - a 4 1/2-foot black snake.
|
| Coles had left Charleston earlier for a leisurely flight
over the West
| Virginia countryside last Saturday in his Piper Cherokee
and was preparing
| to land in Gallipolis, Ohio, when the snake revealed
itself.
|
| "Nothing in any of the manuals ever described anything
like this," the
| 62-year-old Cross Lanes resident said. But the advice
given 25 years
| earlier from his flight instructor immediately came to
mind: "No matter
| what happens, fly the plane."
|
| An attempt to swat the snake only resulted in it falling
to Coles' feet
| under the rudder pedals. It then darted to the other side
of the cockpit.
|
| While maintaining control of the single-engine plane with
one hand, Coles
| grabbed the reptile behind its head with his other.
|
| "There was no way I was letting that thing go. It coiled
all around my arm,
| and its tail grabbed hold of a lever on the floor and
started pulling,"
| Coles said.
|
| --
| Mike Flyin'8
| PP-ASEL
| Temecula, CA
| http://flying.4alexanders.com