Scientific American reports that wildlife smugglers will do anything for a buck. A crash back in August was not caused by a lack of fuel but from a crocodile. The future suitcase was smuggled onto the plane and somehow got free.

This illegal activity reached a devastating and absurdist extreme recently when a man reportedly smuggled a live crocodile onto a plane departing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The crocodile got loose, the crew and passengers panicked, and the plane crashed, killing 20 people.

Oddly enough, the crocodile survived the crash, only to be hacked to death by machete-wielding locals on the ground.

via october in whitechapel, scientific american