A pilot in South Africa made a hasty emergency landing after discovering a highly venomous cobra hiding under his seat. Rudolf Erasmus had four passengers on board the light aircraft during Monday's ...

South African authorities are applauding a pilot’s courage for safely landing an aircraft after feeling a venomous stowaway cobra slithering on his body mid-flight. The pilot, Rudolf Erasmus, told CNN ...

The plane's pilot said that the snake had been spotted under the aircraft before the wild flight Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has ...

Air travel can be nerve-wracking, just ask South African pilot Rudolf Erasmus. He was piloting a small private plane when he found a stowaway of the deadly and reptilian kind. Kate Bartlett reports ...

A group of passengers on board a flight in South Africa on Monday (April 3) are lucky to be alive after an uninvited guest made its way onto the aircraft. Rudolf Erasmus was mid-flight when he felt ...

A pilot in South Africa got the surprise of his life when he found a lethal "voyager" on one of his flights. Pilot Rudolph Erasmus told the BBC that on a recent private plane flight between South ...