Another trouble for United Airlines as a stowaway scorpion
believed to have originated from a warmer weathers in the city of Texas falls
on the head of a passenger and stung him amid a business-class lunch.
The victim, Richard Bell was on his way to Calgary in Canada
from Houston, Texas when the stowaway creature dropped on his head.
"Something fell on my head so I grabbed it. I was
hanging on to it and then I realised what it was," he said.
"My neighbour was a gentleman from Mexico and he said
'that's a scorpion, they're dangerous'. I dropped it on my tray and I went to
grab it again and that's when I got stung.
"It stung me on the thumb, right next to my nail."
He said the creature's shock presence caused
"excitement" among passengers and crew.
He added: "I kind of flicked it on to the floor... then
we covered it up with a cup so it wouldn't get around, and then got out of a
chair and we hit it with a shoe."
Cabin crew flushed the scorpion's remains down the toilet.
Mr Bell said staff were "fantastic" during
Sunday's incident and called doctors on the ground to make sure he was not in
danger.
Emergency workers got on to the plane when it touched down
in Calgary and he was given a clean bill of health.
"Border security came on the plane... the bad part was
that we killed it and threw it in the toilet, and everyone wanted to see if it
was dangerous or not," he said.
Mr Bell has now been compensated with credit for another
flight.
This comes just as United Airlines is working hard to dig
its way out of a public relations disaster over video of a doctor being dragged
screaming from one of its planes.
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