"That snake resides in Ohio now", but was unavailable for comment.

The pilot's name is Monty Coles.

And he says "I told them I had one hand full of snake"...

The jokes just write themselves, folks.

How could he have presence of mind to grab the snake at all? If it had slithered to the other side of the cabin, I think I would have left it there, landed the plane, and gone racing from it as soon as it stopped moving!