A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after discovering a snake loose on his plane in a scene reminiscent of a hit Hollywood movie. Air Frontier pilot Braden Blennerhassett saw the snake’s head pop out from under the dashboard of his twin-engine plane shortly after takeoff from Darwin airport on Tuesday. Company director Geoffrey Hunt said that Blennerhassett called air traffic controllers to alert them to the snake on Tuesday. “He said, we’ve got a snake on board,” Hunt said. He said the pilot had trouble communicating with the control tower. “The snake popped its head out near the transmit button that he needed to press to talk to the tower,” he added. He was told to return to Darwin and a snake handler was organised to meet Mr Blennerhassett, but the reptile was never found. In the 2006 action thriller Snakes on a plane, actor Samuel L Jackson plays an FBI agent forced to take on a plane full of poisonous snakes as he tries to protect the witness of a mob murder.               –Agencies

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