A South African pilot was required to make an emergency situation landing after an extremely poisonous cobra crawled up his t-shirt.
“I felt this cool sensation . . . crawling up my shirt,” Rudolph Erasmus, the pilot, informed the BBC, explaining that initially he believed he may not have actually closed his water bottle correctly and water was dripping out.
The personal airplane had actually been travelling at 11,000ft on its journey from Bloemfontein to Pretoria on Monday.
“As I turned to the left and looked down I saw the cobra . . . receding its head backwards underneath the seat. To be truly honest, it’s as if my brain did not register what was going on. It was a moment of awe.”
After some consideration, he