Oh how terrible. I was afraid that this would be the outcome. It’s just heartbreaking.
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The Snake story reminded me:
Visiting family in SoCal, we go to the Planetarium in Griffith Park for the evening show.
As we’re getting ready to go in, out comes a staff member… Carrying a broom with a Tarantula on it.
& Now I’m supposed to go sit in the darkened theater to watch a show when I know that spider’s mate could still be inside!?! 
I did not enjoy the show.
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Yes. In the 70s it was one of Bruce Davidsons
Most snakes are solitary except during breeding season…thank goodness.
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Someone on a German Facebook post stated they know the shipping company and were told the horse slipped and fell in the box and they couldn’t get it back up while in flight… cant verify the info though
That does not sound at all like what the pilot said in the audio. I’m just guessing the pilots are probably pretty careful not to make up stuff in their communications with air traffic control.
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I would not go by what the pilot said through the public audio. The pilot may not have known or needed to know all of the details, since the pilot’s primary job is to fly the plane.
The pilot just needed a few quick phrases to communicate the general gravity of the situation and then work toward getting the plane back. They didn’t need to tell the whole story, as it were.
Pilots not only don’t make up stuff, the are likely spare with what they do say over the air. Obviously by the recording everything is public. They don’t want problems from listeners over-reacting, even not understanding at all.
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No, Mike Plumb’s.
I copied and pasted the whole article from the NYTimes earlier in this thread.
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I was once an air traffic controller, if a pilot declares an emergency (Mayday) or a potential emergency requiring urgency (Pan, Pan) that aircraft becomes the primary, no ifs ands or buts, the controller only needs to know a reason for the declaration in order to indicate the proper response on the ground
I was a combat controller, we at times would have several emergencies running at the same time that did require us to prioritize some ahead of others
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Katherine Gifford had Doc in the late 70s and early 80s.
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I think maybe the Novicks had him after that. I don’t recall now if it was Scott or his sister who showed him. That was just the name that popped into my head with the horse.
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How is that cost effective? Is it some sort of gourmet young animal thing? gags
I had no idea so many animals were flown. Check this out.
They have windows, lol. So, if you watch Sheep Air fly over, does it make you really sleepy? That many sheep should count… Is the inflight movie “Babe”?
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I worked in Mexico in the 1980s where often goats and other animals were flown with passengers. AiroMexico was nearly like the wild west.
just remembered the squealing piglet running down the aisle into the cockpit (door was propped open) which cause the copilot to chase it back
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I flew within Egypt (think it was on Egypt Air) in the mid 80s, and there were loose chickens in the cabin.
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A memory just triggered. Watching the second-class interstate bus load in Mexico, with a collection goats, caged chickens, pigs, who knows what else. And tons of noisy lively children.
My traveling companion and I were grateful that we had taken seriously the tip to go first-class bus only. 
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Hahaha!
Air Misr, colloquially known as “Air Misery”.
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You must be familiar with the airline. . .
Chickens weren’t the half of it – there were passengers cooking during the flight, in the aisle, over charcoal! As though this was a normal, everyday thing.
When I kept pointing to the Ne Pas Fumer signs posted in the cabin, trying to get across the point that cooking, especially over an open fire, surely wasn’t allowed on board, passengers near me thought that I was afraid of flying, and kindly tried to reassure me.
Good thing this was a short flight. .
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No one in authority was controlling this? It probably was normal – for them.
In situations like that I just figure that if they have been surviving so far, surely we can stay lucky for this one more event.
There was a time when travelers from certain regions of the world where international travel was nearly unheard of, first began flying in to the U.S. Imagine the dismay of high-end hotels to find a similar situation in their rooms. The women had brought their cooking stones with them to build a fire and set up their daily cooking. Basically the rooms they stayed in were transformed into the rooms they lived in, back home.
The language barrier wasn’t the half of it. There was zero understanding that it was possible to conduct daily life at all without cooking over a fire built on their stones. There must be a fire and cooking. They wouldn’t give it up.
