Sudanese Plane Makes Emergency Landing After A Cat Hijacks Cockpit
In a bizarre act, a Sudanese flight had to make an emergency landing at Khartoum International Airport on Wednesday, after an angry cat attacked the pilot in the cockpit.
After almost half an hour of the takeoff from the Khartoum International Airport, the unexpected passenger got into the cockpit and started attacking the pilots.?
'Cat launched attacks on the whole crew'
Clearly not a fan of flying, the ferocious cat launched attacks at the whole crew. When everybody failed to control the cat, the pilot gave up and decided to turn around to make an emergency landing, as reported by a local media house Al-Sudani.?The commercial flight was a Sudanese Tarco airline bound for Qatar¡¯s capital, Doha.
All passengers have been reported to land safely. However, it is still not clear how the cat managed to sneak into the aircraft. According to reports, it is being speculated that the feline could have entered the aircraft the previous night when it was parked at a hangar on the Khartoum airport.
Strangely enough, cats attacking pilots is more common than one can imagine. According to an RT report, in 2004 a "well travelled" cat named Gin went berserk in the cockpit mid flight after it escaped its travel bag, forcing the Belgian passenger airline carrying 62 people to return back to Brussels. Gin the cat walked into the cockpit when meals were being served to the pilots then suddenly attacked the pilots.
The same year, another stowaway cat entered cockpit of the plane flying from the north-eastern city of Sylhet to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and pounced on the pilot according to a New Age report. After landing, the crew and staff of the airport had to chase the cat inside aircraft for two hours before it was finally caught.
