'Welcome to Illinois, SATAN': Adam Kinzinger says snake dropped out of plane's wheel well after four-hour flight

Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said that after he had flown a four-hour flight from Texas to Illinois, a snake dropped out of the airplane's wheel well.

"Yesterday I flew from Texas to Illinois, 4 hours at 17,500. Outside temp at that altitude was -8. Landed, taxied in, and when i stopped this boy dropped out of my wheel well. Welcome to Illinois, SATAN," Kinzinger tweeted on Monday. He included several photos of the reptile.

Someone who responded to the former lawmaker said, "This is a non poisonous Texas rat snake by the way in case you were curious."

"Ya. But him hijacking my plane is, discomforting!" Kinzinger replied.

Kinzinger departed from office in early January after more than a decade serving in the House chamber — he did not run for re-election in 2022.

Kinzinger was one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and he was one of the two Republican lawmakers to serve on the House Select Committee that was supposed to investigate the Jan. 6 episode. The other GOP lawmaker to serve on the panel was Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who also left office after her term ended in early January — Cheney lost her 2022 primary to a Trump-backed challenger.

On the heels of his exit from Congress, it was announced that Kinzinger would be a CNN senior political commentator.

A pilot in South Africa recently managed to safely land after a snake came came into contact with him mid flight — the creature was a Cape cobra, a venomous type of snake.

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