Associated Press writers John Rogers, Andrew Dalton, Christopher Weber and Robert Jablon contributed to this story from Los Angeles.

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One passenger, Robert Weber, a website designer in Cairns, told the Sydney Morning Herald: ''The people at the front were oblivious to what was going on but the passengers at the back were all totally focused on the snake and how it might have got on to the aircraft.

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Associated Press writers Greg Risling, Robert Jablon, Chris Weber, Gillian Flaccus and Linda Deutsch contributed to this story.

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