place last Thursday aboard Flight 6316 from San Jose to Madrid.
The pilot told the Barajas control tower that a scorpion had stung a passenger; the airport’s medical service was subsequently notified, the sources told EFE yesterday.
Upon the airliner’s arrival at Madrid, Barajas doctors confirmed the arachnid sting on the passenger’s left arm, for which they took her to a hospital in the Spanish capital. — PTI.



