A flight had to divert hours into a journey after a “hallucinating” passenger became increasingly concerned about snakes being on board. The easyJet flight was bound for Marrakech, Morocco, after leaving London Gatwick Airport. All was well until, as the plane prepared to enter Portuguese airspace, the traveller became increasingly irate. The man—who was wearing a T-shirt with snakes on it—then “went berserk,” becoming “violent and abusive” and forcing the pilots into an emergency landing in Faro, Portugal, according to British media. “Snakes on a plane! We need to land!” he is said to have shouted. He was escorted off the plane by waiting police. Flight EZY8705 continued on to Morocco and landed at 11 p.m. local time on Saturday. “No one quite knew what was going on, or initially if the flyer had actually seen a snake loose among the cabin at 30,000ft,” a source told The Sun. They said the man was either drunk or high on drugs, adding, “He was in such a state that he thought the snakes on his t-shirt were real and sliding around the seats.” The episode invokes images of 2006 movie “Snakes on a Plane,” in which Samuel L. Jackson delivers the iconic line, “I have had it with these motherf---ing snakes on this motherf---ing plane!”
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