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I prefer everyone to be overcautious if something unexpected occurs. How did the snake get in the plane? Perhaps there's some damage somewhere that allowed the

• jhugo 5y ago
  > Perhaps there's some damage somewhere that allowed the snake to slip in? I mean, I agree with your more general point, but for an airliner to operate with unnoticed damage is pretty rare. For a snake to then also climb in through the unnoticed damage? It seems like there are simpler explanations that are much more likely :)
  • lamontcg 5y ago
    If the snake gets into the passenger compartment and bites someone that's a lawsuit. If they have a reaction to the venom that's a bigger lawsuit. And the company is not going to trust any armchair herpetologist guesses as to what species it is or what it "probably" is. It is also unusual enough of an occurrence that a strict policy of diverting when there's (mf'ing) snakes on the plane won't really impact operations that much. IOW better safe that sorry.