A passenger on an airplane in the Congo attempted to smuggle a crocodile in a large sports-bag. Evidently, a passenger wanted to smuggle it out of the country and sell it. The croc escaped and caused mayhem on the plane, which lost its’ balance as all the passengers fled to one side of the plane to escape the attacking animal. The plane then crashed into a house.
Alas, it all ended quite tragically as all but one passenger was killed. Ironically, the croc was found alive in the wreckage, but was macheted to death.
Quite tragic…and bizarre. How did the plane’s baggage handlers not notice something was wrong when they loaded a sportsbag onto a plane, one that must have been wriggling & heaving as the outraged croc tried to escape?
Just how big was this croc? It fit in a sports bag and presumably could be readily carried by one person…yet it was terrifying enough to panic an entire plane full of people into ahem flight? Didn’t anyone attempt to kill or restrain it?
The article says the passengers rushed toward the cockpit, not to one side of the aircraft. It’s probably easier to unbalance a plane front-to-rear than side-to-side.
If there’s any justice in this world. the guy who survived isn’t the one who brought the croc on board.
I’ve heard a (probably apocryphal) story that the marching band from some West Coast school, flying back from Hawaii after a big football game, decided that they didn’t want to go home, and so systematically grouped themselves on the left side of the plane, then suddenly switched to the right, then left, then right, then were arrested by a flight marshal and barred from flying on the airline ever again.
I have to assume it was drugged. That’s the only way I can figure that a croc could be docile for that long. It’s conceivable that it was chilled, and that it became more active as it warmed up, but I bet it was drugged.
It’s my dream, someday, to bribe all the passengers on a 747 to quickly rush to one side of the plane, then rush to the other, then quickly return to their seats and pretend nothing has happened before the crew finds out.
