US plane returns to terminal after scorpion stings passenger

An Alaska Airlines plane returned to a terminal here after a woman on board was stung by a scorpion, airline officials said.
Flight 567, bound for Portland, Oregon, was preparing for takeoff at 7:50 pm yesterday when the animal stung the female passenger on the hand, spokesman for the airline Cole Cosgrove said.
Paramedics boarded the plane while it remained on a runway and treated the woman, Cosgrove said.
She refused additional medical treatment but did not get back on the plane.
"No one seemed frantic at all, not even the woman who was stung. The flight attendants did a great job, as did the captain," Mike Parker, a passenger on the flight and sports announcer for Oregon State University, told CNN.

The scorpion was located and killed by crew members, according to Cosgrove. Maintenance workers checked the aircraft to ensure there were no other such animals present, the spokesman said.
The plane, which had arrived from Los Cabos, Mexico, departed Los Angles Airport about 40 minutes after the incident.
The injured woman remained in Los Angeles, according to the airline.