A South African pilot had to make an emergency landing after discovering a cobra under his seat. The poisonous snake was five feet long.
“To be truly honest, it’s as if my brain did not register what was going on,” Rudolph Erasmus, the pilot said to BBC.
“I told them: ‘Listen, the snake is underneath my seat. It is inside the cockpit, so we are going to have to execute a landing as fast as possible,” said Erasmus while talking about how he handled the situation.
He first thought the cold feeling on his back was his water bottle, however as he turned to the left and looked down, “I saw the cobra receding its head backwards underneath the seat.”
The plane was going from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. Along with the serpent, the private aircraft, a Beechcraft Baron 58, was carrying four passengers.
