South African pilot Rudolf Erasmus made an emergency landing after discovering a Cape cobra accompanying him in the cockpit on Monday. The snake has not been found again since the plane landed.
with a head that is hardly set off from the body, reaches a length of up to 5.25 feet and has big eyes with a round pupil. Its bite can kill a person in as little as one hour.someone in as little as an hour. Erasmus says his first thoughts were for his passengers.
"I was more afraid of what the snake might do. Luckily it didn't strike anyone, otherwise that would have changed or complicated the whole situation," he says., in which an FBI agent played by Samuel L. Jackson lets loose an expletive-laden tirade when he discovers the plane he's on is full of venomous snakes.
Erasmus says he'd seen the movie some time ago and the tirade was playing out inside his own head."That's how I felt at some point," he says, laughing. Erasmus has been praised by South African civil aviation commissioner Poppy Khosa, who called him"a hero" and said he"saved all lives on board."Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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