A Canadian man says he suffered hallucinations and excruciating pain , and feared he was going to die after he was stung by a venomous scorpion on a flight from Colombia to Mexico . The plane was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing in Bogota , the Colombian capital , after Adam Young was attacked by the dangerous arachnid . It happened as Mr Young , from St John ’ s , Newfoundland , felt something crawling under his shirt as he tried to nap shortly after the plane departed for Mexico City . Adam Young suffered nausea , numbness , chest pains and hallucinations after being stung ( file photo ) He tried to flick it off , but it was too late , the CBC reported . Mr Young wrote in a Facebook post : ‘ The scorpion had already done its work on me and stung me three times . ‘ I jumped out of my chair in a huge commotion and it fell out of my shirt on to the chair. ’ He was travelling with friend Brendan Dawson Walsh , who thought it was a prank until he saw the scorpion on the plane ’ s floor . After they alerted flight attendants , the scorpion was found under Mr Young 's seat cushion and killed as the plane aborted its five-hour journey and returned to Bogota last Friday . Adam Young said he was stung after he felt something crawling under his shirt ( file photo ) The plane diverted after a doctor who happened to be on board insisted that it land as soon as possible , radio station VOCM reported . Mr Young said the venom was setting into his veins , causing ‘ excruciating ’ pain and a ‘ burning sensation ’ . He wrote : ‘ Even though I remained calm on the outside I was dying on the inside. ’ He suffered nausea , numbness to his arm , chest pains and hallucinations during the 20 minutes that it took to return to Bogota , where paramedics met the plane on the tarmac . A fellow passenger told Mr Young that it was a highly-venomous scorpion which attacked him ( file photo ) Mr Young was rushed to a medical room inside the airport and given an anti-venom injection in the buttocks . While he received urgent treatment , employees did a sweep of the plane and cleared it for take-off after they failed to find additional scorpions . Still in pain , Mr Young boarded the plane and continued his journey to Mexico . A fellow passenger told him that he had been attacked by a highly-venomous scorpion which is capable of killing a human . Friday ’ s incident was at least the second time in as many months a passenger has been stung by a scorpion on a plane . Last month a scorpion stung a woman on the hand just before take-off on an Alaskan Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Portland . The woman was stung as the plane was taxiing on the runway , and she stomped the scorpion to death as the aircraft returned to the gate . She declined additional medical treatment after she was checked over by paramedics . The flight originated in Los Cabos , Mexico .
Adam Young felt something crawling under his shirt as he tried to nap . He tried to flick it away , but was stung three times by the scorpion . Mr Young said he was in so much pain that he feared he would die . A doctor who happened to be on board insisted that the plane turn around . It made an emergency landing in Bogota and was met by paramedics . Mr Young was rushed inside and given an anti-venom injection .