Snake found on a flight to Alaska

Unlike the movie Snakes On A Plane, seldom will you hear of stories like that of a loose snake, especially in an airplane but this was the case recently when the pilot of an airplane announced to the passengers that there was a loose snake on board the plane.

Anna McConnaughy was flying to Alaska's largest city on Tuesday when an announcement came over the intercom that: a passenger on a previous flight had brought a pet snake on board and had left the plane but the snake had not.

"The pilot came, and said, 'Guys, we have some loose snake on the plane, but we don't know where it is,"' McConnaughy said.

The non venomous snake, mostly sleepy was later spotted by a little boy, one of seven passengers on the Ravn Alaska commuter flight from the Alaska village of Aniak to Anchorage, who was climbing on his seat when he sighted the slumbering snake lying partially covered by a duffel bag near the back of the plane.

"He said, 'Oh, Mom, look at this. What's that?"' McConnaughy said.

"That's how we figured out there was a snake sleeping in the corner."

According to McConnaughy, there was no panic as people even wanted to see the snake. A pilot came back to help, she said, leading to a short discussion with a flight attendant on how best to capture it.

"He said, 'I'll hold the bag, and you grab the snake,"' McConnaughy said.

"Quite a gentleman,"she added.

The flight attendant grabbed the snake by the belly and dropped it into a plastic trash bag where it spent the rest of the flight in an overhead storage bin without interrupting the flight.