A man was stung by a scorpion on a United Airlines flight to Canada

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An attorney for David Dao, the passenger dragged off a United Airlines flight, said at a news conference Thursday that Dr. Dao suffered a concussion during the incident and will likely sue. Dao?s daughter Crystal Pepper also spoke about the toll the incident has taken on the family. Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters.

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A man was stung by a scorpion on a United Airlines flight to Canada. Photo: AFP PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/JUSTIN SULLIVAN

AND the hits just keep on coming.

A passenger on a United Airlines flight was stung by a scorpion — which fell from an overhead compartment and on to his head — the same day a doctor was forcibly dragged from his seat to make room for the airline’s crew members, the New York Post has reported.

The creepy crawly incident unfolded Sunday during a flight from Houston, Texas to Calgary, Canada according to Global News Canada.

“[It] felt __like a wasp sting,” recalled Richard Bell, who was returning home with his wife, Linda, following a two-week vacation in Mexico.

The eight-legged, honey-coloured stowaway had somehow made it into the plane’s overhead compartment — likely crawling out of someone’s luggage, the outlet reports.

A Canadian man was stung by a honey-coloured scorpion on a United Airlines flight the same day the airline violently dragged a passenger off a plane.Source:Supplied

When it fell out, the scorpion landed in Bell’s hair, but he and his wife had no idea what it was.

“I look down and I thought, ‘aw, it kind of looks __like a little lobster,’” Linda told Global News.

After Bell tossed the inch-and-a-half long creature off of him, another passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 1418 reportedly pointed out that it was dangerous — prompting someone else to stomp on it and throw it in a toilet.

Killing it was ultimately the “worst thing to do,” Bell said, “because when we landed everyone wanted to see it”.

John Rogers, who was also on the flight, said firefighters and police had to board the plane to assess the situation.

“The pilot announced it,” he said.

An EMS spokesman told Global News that Bell showed “no signs of distress” after being stung and that he refused to receive medical treatment.

United was said to be looking into the incident, which came on the exact same day of the now-infamous removal of a Kentucky doctor from a flight leaving Chicago.

Dr. David Dao’s lawyer on Thursday said the 69-year-old suffered a slew of injuries as a result of being forcibly dragged from his seat and off the plane — including a concussion and the loss of two front teeth.

He explained that his ultimate hope is that Dao becomes the “poster child” for airline abuse of their passengers.

United also made headlines last month when they refused to let two teenage girls board a flight because they were wearing yoga pants.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and has been republished here with permission.