A cat that had made itself comfortable for a few days in a Boeing 737-900ER parked at Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion Airport seriously damaged the aircraft. The stray sneaked into the medium-haul jet unnoticed and stayed there for a few days without food and water.

How long the four-legged friend was actually "locked up" in the 4X-EMS is unclear. The aircraft has been parked on the apron of Israel's largest airport since January 27, 2021. It is assumed that the Boeing 737-900ER entered the Boeing XNUMX-XNUMXER unnoticed on this day and has since been "trapped" there. An intention can be absolutely ruled out, because cats are real world champions of hiding and the crew or the technicians should simply not have seen the animal.

By chance, the journalist Itay Blumental found himself near the 4X-EMS because of a completely different journalistic task. He noticed the cat in the area of ​​the cockpit window and immediately drew the attention of El Al's technical department. At first there were certain doubts, but safety first: the mechanics opened the plane and actually found a living cat.

However, the animal in the cockpit caused considerable property damage, which Itay Blumental is documented photographically. The animal literally scratched parts of the disguise. The amount of damage is currently unknown. In any case, the cat should be fine and the technicians from the airline El Al are already repairing the involuntary stay of the animal.