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Aircraft crashes after crocodile on board escapes and sparks panic - Telegraph


Aircraft crashes after crocodile on board escapes and sparks panic
A small airliner crashed into a house, killing a British pilot and 19 others after a crocodile smuggled into the aircraft in a sports bag escaped and started a panic.


Published: 5:53PM BST 21 Oct 2010
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Aircraft crashes after crocodile on board escapes and sparks panic
One of the passengers had hidden the animal, which he planned to sell, in a big sports bag Photo: AP
Aircraft crashes after crocodile on board escapes and sparks panic
British pilot Chris Wilson from Shurdington, near Cheltenham was the First Officer on the flight Photo: CASCADE NEWS

The plane came down despite no apparent mechanical problems during an internal flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It has now emerged that the crash was caused by the concealed reptile escaping and causing a stampede in the cabin, throwing the aircraft off-balance.

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A lone survivor apparently relayed the bizarre tale to investigators.

The crocodile survived the crash, only to be dispatched with a blow from a machete.

Danny Philemotte, the Belgian pilot and 62-year-old owner of the plane's operator, Filair, struggled in vain with the controls, with Chris Wilson, his 39-year-old First Officer from Shurdington, near Cheltenham, Glocs.

The plane was on a routine flight from the capital, Kinshasa, to the regional airport at Bandundu when the incident unfolded, on August 25.

It crashed into a house just a few hundred feet from its destination. The occupants of the property were outside at the time.

According to the inquiry report and the testimony of the only survivor, the crash happened because of a panic sparked by the escape of a crocodile hidden in a sports bag.

One of the passengers had hidden the animal, which he planned to sell, in a big sports bag, from which the reptile escaped as the plane began its descent into Bandundu.

A report of the incident said: "The terrified air hostess hurried towards the cockpit, followed by the passengers."

The plane was then sent off-balance "despite the desperate efforts of the pilot", said the report.

The plane was a Czech-made Let L-410 Turbolet, one of more than 1,100 produced as short-range transport aircraft and used mainly for passenger services.

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Snowmayne

Enough is enough, I've had it with these mother fucking crocodiles on this mother fucking plane

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Grieves

note to self: use moar traqs before bagging croc....

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lol poor guy

I wonder if the survivor was the one who brought the croc onboard.

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Lloydy

it would have been a better story if the croc got away

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HTAM

Croc, caught and imprisoned in a sports bag escapes to become a bag, belt and purse.

How in the ensuing panic did the lone survivor determine that the croc was being smuggled by a passenger, and who that passenger was, and what the motive was for smuggling the croc?

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This is merely the latest stage in the lizards' plans against us.

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