<p>Hundreds of passengers scheduled to board an Australian Qantas jet were forced to spend a night in hotels after a tiny snake was found on the door of the aircraft.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The reptile was discovered on board the Tokyo-bound aircraft at Sydney International Airport yesterday night.<br /><br />Twenty centimetre long and thin as a ball-point pen, the snake was found wriggling near the plane's door, media reports said today.<br /><br />Qantas spokeswoman said a cabin crew discovered the critter as some 370 passengers was about to board the plane.<br /><br />The passengers spent the night in nearby hotels while quarantine officials caught and examined the snake.<br /><br />The plane had been on ground in Sydney all day after an earlier flight from Singapore.The re-scheduled flight took off at 7.15 am on Monday.<br /><br />In January, a three metre python was discovered in an early morning Qantas flight from Cairns in Queensland, Australia to Papua New Guinea. </p>
<p>Hundreds of passengers scheduled to board an Australian Qantas jet were forced to spend a night in hotels after a tiny snake was found on the door of the aircraft.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The reptile was discovered on board the Tokyo-bound aircraft at Sydney International Airport yesterday night.<br /><br />Twenty centimetre long and thin as a ball-point pen, the snake was found wriggling near the plane's door, media reports said today.<br /><br />Qantas spokeswoman said a cabin crew discovered the critter as some 370 passengers was about to board the plane.<br /><br />The passengers spent the night in nearby hotels while quarantine officials caught and examined the snake.<br /><br />The plane had been on ground in Sydney all day after an earlier flight from Singapore.The re-scheduled flight took off at 7.15 am on Monday.<br /><br />In January, a three metre python was discovered in an early morning Qantas flight from Cairns in Queensland, Australia to Papua New Guinea. </p>