Some things just don’t need to be on an airplane. Among these is the noble and dangerous crocodile. Large carnivorous reptiles and air travel don’t mix, as a Filair flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo found out. A crocodile being stored in a duffel bag got loose on the flight, everyone panicked, and the plane went down. Now, a crocodile on a plane running wild is funny, but not when it results in 20 deaths.
According to the only survivor of the plane crash, when the reptile got loose, all hell broke loose. “The terrified air hostess hurried towards the cockpit, followed by the passengers,” said the report. This caused the to become unstable as the weight shifted wildly, and the plane went down “despite the desperate efforts of the pilot.”
Technically, there were two survivors of the plane crash, the human who gave the report and the crocodile. Unfortunately for the crocodile, his survival of the crash left him vulnerable, and someone at the scene of the wreck killed him with a machete. Luck only goes so far, I guess.
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