Anyone flying this weekend?
A pair of Phormictopus cancerides, a species of tarantulas common to the Dominican Republic, have caused panic on an Air Transat flight from Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) to Montreal. Passengers were left screaming and standing on their seats as flight attendants warned them to keep their ankles covered.
The two largish (~10cm( hairy spiders were spotted towards the end of the flight, one when it crawled up the leg of a passenger. The second was trapped after the plane landed.
The union that represents Air Transat flight attendants said the plane’s crew did all they could to keep passengers calm, instructing them to put their shoes on and cover their ankles.
The tarantulas are poisonous but not highly dangerous; no-one was bitten. It's thought that a passenger was attempting to smuggle the spiders into Canada.
A pair of Phormictopus cancerides, a species of tarantulas common to the Dominican Republic, have caused panic on an Air Transat flight from Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) to Montreal. Passengers were left screaming and standing on their seats as flight attendants warned them to keep their ankles covered.
The two largish (~10cm( hairy spiders were spotted towards the end of the flight, one when it crawled up the leg of a passenger. The second was trapped after the plane landed.
The union that represents Air Transat flight attendants said the plane’s crew did all they could to keep passengers calm, instructing them to put their shoes on and cover their ankles.
The tarantulas are poisonous but not highly dangerous; no-one was bitten. It's thought that a passenger was attempting to smuggle the spiders into Canada.
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1Tqr4la
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