put up with?
--- In [email protected], Diane Lochner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I direct your attention to this story, that I saw on the Fox News
website last week. I'm a student pilot, and I can pretty much
guarantee you that if I ever find a 4 1/2 foor snake on my airplane,
I will die. I will scream myself into a state of hypoxia, lawn-dart
my airplane and die. I'm adding "look for snakes" to my pre-flight
checklist immediately.
>
> Like Jen's story, it involves humor and a dog (sort of) but not
really any Bush bashing, sorry folks.
>
>
>
> Pilot Fights Black Snake Stowaway on Plane
> Friday , June 02, 2006
>
>
> CHARLESTON, W.Va. Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air when he
discovered a stowaway peeking out at him from the plane's instrument
panel a 4 1/2-foot black snake.
>
> Coles had left Charleston earlier for a leisurely flight over the
West Virginia countryside last Saturday in his Piper Cherokee and was
preparing to land in Gallipolis, Ohio, when the snake revealed itself.
>
> "Nothing in any of the manuals ever described anything like
this," the 62-year-old Cross Lanes resident said. But the advice
given 25 years earlier from his flight instructor immediately came to
mind: "No matter what happens, fly the plane."
>
> An attempt to swat the snake only resulted in it falling to
Coles' feet under the rudder pedals. It then darted to the other side
of the cockpit.
>
> While maintaining control of the single-engine plane with one
hand, Coles grabbed the reptile behind its head with his other.
>
> "There was no way I was letting that thing go. It coiled all
around my arm, and its tail grabbed hold of a lever on the floor and
started pulling," Coles said.
>
> The next step was to radio for emergency landing clearance.
>
> "They came back and asked what my problem was. I told them I had
one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane. They cleared
me in."
>
> After a smooth landing, Coles posed for pictures with the snake,
then let it loose.
> "That snake resides in Ohio now," he said. "I wasn't about to
bring it home. I don't mind snakes, but I sure like to know where
they are."
>
> Coles said he was lucky his usual travel companions, his wife and
dachshund, were not on the flight.
>
> "If my wife had been in the plane, I wouldn't have a wife, a
plane or myself," Coles said. "I don't know what might have happened
if Killer had been in the plane, but it sure would have been a lot
more exciting."
>
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