Nevertheless, the plane stayed at BWI, where it was searched and determined to be all-clear.
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The baboon tarantula is a species native to East Africa and is popular among spider collectors.
It can happen. Passengers who were scheduled to board a Delta flight from Baltimore to Atlanta thankfully avoided a potential in-flight run-in with a tarantula on Wednesday night.
Flight attendants have realized that the tarantula was missing when they arrived in Baltimore.
The captain then ordered that the aircraft should be held in Baltimore overnight to ensure that no more spiders had managed to find their way onto the plane.
People who have Arachnophobia probably were very glad to hear they didn’t have to fly with the spider.
Passengers were eventually moved to another plane because the company wanted to avoid complaints.
The handler reportedly followed all policies and procedures for the trip.
“It was not in the passenger cabin and customers were not on the aircraft when the tarantula was discovered”, Delta spokesman Morgan Durrant says in a statement to WSB TV of Atlanta.
A tarantula was found on a Delta Airlines flight at Baltimore’s airport Thursday.
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The airline worked with the handler to make sure all of them, if there was more than one, were accounted for.
