A cobra was spotted on the runway of the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here triggering panic among the passengers and forcing the flight to halt for some time on Saturday evening.
The passengers alighted from the plane till the cobra was rescued. The incident took place at around 8.20 pm when the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Vistara flight landed.
After an airport official spotted the cobra, it was caught by airport officials with the help of two sticks and kept in a bag for releasing it at another location.
This was not for the first time that a snake was spotted and rescued from the airport. Earlier, several such incidents had been reported from here.