Mexico City - A real-life "Snakes on a Plane" encounter happened on a flight to Mexico City when a 5-foot serpent descended from the overhead compartment Sunday.

The reptile can be seen slowly slithering down the side of the plane before falling onto seats on Aeromexico Flight 230 from Torreon.

According to Mexican newspaper El Debate, flight attendants quickly notified the pilot who immediately began organizing an emergency landing.

A professor at Universidad Politécnica de la Región Laguna, a university in Coahuila, Mexico, captured video of the incident. He tweeted in Spanish: "The flying snake. A unique experience on a flight from Torreon, Mexico, flight 231 of Aeromexico. That being so ... priority landing." He later added that Mexico City's animal control division boarded the plane to secure the "unexpected traveler."

A spokesperson for the airline says they are working to determine how the snake found its way into the cabin, and how they can prevent this from happening again in the future.