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Eels writhe on Vancouver airport’s tarmac after escaping from Air Canada cargo box
RICHMOND — It was not quite the 2006 film “Snakes on a Plane” at Vancouver International Airport, but there were real eels — dozens of them — writhing on the tarmac during a recent incident captured on video.
Air Canada Cargo says in a statement that it was handling a shipment of eels from Toronto to Vancouver on July 7 when one container box accidentally spilled during unloading.
Video on social media shows the broken box on top of a stationary conveyor belt with half-metre-long eels slithering out and falling to the ground, while about two dozen writhed on the tarmac below.
The video also recorded at least one person screaming in the background as the eels spilled to the ground.