{"id":36473,"date":"2013-09-24T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=36473"},"modified":"2013-09-24T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T20:57:07","slug":"snakes-on-a-plane-flight-from-sydney-to-tokyo-grounded-after-a-reptile-is-found-on-board-in-passenger-compartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=36473","title":{"rendered":"Snakes on a plane! Flight from Sydney to Tokyo grounded after a reptile is found on board in passenger compartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/snake-Tokyo-flight-in-Sydney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36470\" alt=\"snake-Tokyo- flight in Sydney\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/snake-Tokyo-flight-in-Sydney.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/snake-Tokyo-flight-in-Sydney.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/snake-Tokyo-flight-in-Sydney-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/snake-Tokyo-flight-in-Sydney-476x300.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A plane had to be grounded after a snake was discovered on a Qantas Boeing 747 airliner.<\/p>\n<p>The finding of the small reptile led to 370 passengers being grounded in Sydney overnight, the airline said today.<\/p>\n<p>Staff found the eight-inch unidentified snake in the passenger cabin near the door before passengers were due to board at Sydney International Airport for a flight to Tokyo, Qantas said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s flagship airline said the passengers were accommodated in hotels overnight and left Sydney on a replacement plane this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The snake was taken by quarantine officials for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Agriculture Department said in a statement the snake was with entomologists and had not yet been identified.<\/p>\n<p>The jet had been on an airport tarmac since it arrived in Sydney from Singapore on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane had to be grounded after a snake was discovered on a Qantas Boeing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[942],"class_list":["post-36473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-australia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}