Snake scare at Ranchi airport terminal

Ranchi: Remember the scene of horrified passengers in 2006 Hollywood thriller " Snakes on a Plane". In a virtual replay of reel life in real life, passengers were horrified when snakes appeared in the terminal building of Ranchi's Birsa Munda Airport.
Two snakes were spotted at the airport terminal on Monday evening and on Tuesday evening. Airport director Raju Raghavendra Kumar confirmed the sighting of the reptiles.
"There was enough room for the snake to sneak into the luggage. Quite a few luggages were lying around the x-ray machine where the snake was spotted," said Ranjan Sen, a passenger waiting for a Kolkata flight scheduled to depart at 7.20pm on Tuesday.
The CISF personnel, armed with carbolic acid (a snake repellent), started looking for the snake that was found after an hour's search at 7.55pm barely 10 minutes before the departure of the GoAir flight.
The airport authorities sprayed snake repellent in and around the airport after the incident. But on Tuesday evening again a snake, some three feet long, appeared near the x-ray machine. The machine is in service and several baggage are x-rayed in it. This snake was also caught after CISF staff chased it for over one hour.
30/06/12 Alok K N Mishra/Times of India

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Categories: airports Jul 2012