United Airlines Passenger was Stung By Scorpion On Flight To Calgary

A Canadian man said  he was stung by a scorpion while travelling on a United Airlines flight from Houston to Calgary.

Richard Bell said the scorpion fell from the overhead bin and onto his head while he was eating lunch in mid-air. It then stung him under the fingernail.

“My husband felt something in his hair. He grabbed it out of his hair and it fell onto his dinner table. As he was grabbing it by the tail it stung him,” Bell’s wife Linda told CNN.

A nurse who happened to be on board gave him a painkiller as a precaution.

When the plane landed in Calgary, Bell was taken to a hospital, and later released after being cleared of any medical issue.

United Airlines has offered the couple flying credit as compensation.