AN airline passenger carried a bag filled with animals including SNAKES with him on an eight-hour flight, police say.
The menagerie – including four snakes, two parrots and a squirrel inside a box – was found in the transit area of Abu Dhabi airport last week.
Cops declined to give the name of the suspect, who had flown to the United Arab Emirates from Indonesia.
They also did not identify which species of snake were in the bag.
But experts said photographs of the reptiles appeared to show non-venomous pythons.
It was not known how Indonesian authorities missed them.
The lapse is reminiscent of Samuel L Jackson’s 2006 movie Snakes on a Plane.