An actual snake on a plane, which popped out of an overhead compartment during an Aeromexico flight Sunday from Torreon to Mexico City, scared travelers, but Samuel L. Jackson was nowhere to be found.
The Aeromexico flight, where the venomous green viper appeared, landed safely and no one was hurt, USA Today reported. The incident brought to mind the cult classic 2006 movie "Snakes on a Plane," in which Jackson played an FBI agent trying to protect a witness on an airplane when a crate full of snakes was released on unsuspecting passengers.
Aeromexico reportedly is investigating how the snake managed to get on the plane and remain undetected until the flight was in the air, USA Today said.
A video posted on Facebook by Indalecio Medina has attracted more than 103,000 views since it was uploaded Sunday.
"I was reading a magazine and the passenger next to me saw it and, 'Oh my word,'" Medina told The Associated Press on Monday. He estimated the snake was about three feet long.
The dangling snake left passengers beneath it rushing to leave their seats, but passengers managed to trap it in rows 5 and 6 with a blanket, the AP wrote.
"It was a frightening situation ... but people remained calm because it didn't get out of that space and nobody became hysterical," Medina said, according to the AP. "Some people got up to see what kind of reptile it was, but nobody got carried away."
Passengers exited out the rear of the aircraft once it landed and animal control workers took the snake into custody, the AP noted.
The website Live Science wrote that green vipers are part of the larger viper family of venomous snakes found in most places around the world. Vipers all have long, hinged fangs with the most dangerous located in tropical areas.