Airport workers were startled to find a green snake making its way up the stairs. Source: Twitter 

Passengers boarding a Virgin plane at Gold Coast Airport were diverted to the rear of the plane when airline workers discovered a snake had scaled its way up the stairs to the front door.

Luckily they didn’t have a hiss-y fit over the surprise visitor.

It just so happened that Assistant Minister for Defence, Stuart Robert, was one of the passengers boarding the plane and he took to Twitter to announce the breach of security, not the first time a snake has tried to slip its way onto a flight.

“A snake had just slithered up the front steps, so we actually boarded, then, through the back steps,” he told ABC.

“But within five minutes they had come along and a couple of airport guys had brought a bag and a couple of snake catching rods and quickly gathered up the little sucker and put him in the bag, and I guess deposited him out where he belongs.”

“It was probably enjoying the nice warm steel as part of the front stairs and wasn’t quite aware what all the fuss was about really,” he said.

“Now it may have just climbed up there I guess when people were happily boarding the aircraft, but you have to admire how good the airline staff are in terms of rapidly diverting plans, sorting out the snake, replotting the aircraft in terms of when it is going to take off.

“But I dare say the poor little snake didn’t make it to Sydney.”

It’s not the first time a snake has tried to hitch a free ride, with a python boarding a Qantas flight from Cairns to PNG in 2013. Source: Supplied 

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