Elal Dreamliner stuck in Hong Kong due to a cat
Nov 16, 2020, 3:47 am
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Elal Dreamliner stuck in Hong Kong due to a cat
https://www.ynet.co.il/vacation/flig...icle/r1173t5YD
Article in Hebrew from Nov 12: due to finding traces of a cat on the Dreamliner and the international restriction that a plane can't fly with an animal loose on the plane the plane is grounded.
Elal and local staff were unable to find or trap the wayward cat.
Article in Hebrew from Nov 12: due to finding traces of a cat on the Dreamliner and the international restriction that a plane can't fly with an animal loose on the plane the plane is grounded.
Elal and local staff were unable to find or trap the wayward cat.
Nov 17, 2020, 2:21 pm
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Could you enlighten those of us who are not fluent in Hebrew about what "traces" were found? Hairs from a cat, or a furball, perhaps? To me, it sounds curious that they found "traces" but they couldn't find the cat itself.
Nov 17, 2020, 8:42 pm
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Nov 17, 2020, 10:28 pm
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Nov 18, 2020, 11:34 am
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Guessing it was -EDL, which arrived HKG on the morning of the 11th, then left evening of the 13th (tsk, tsk...) per flightaware.
Nov 18, 2020, 11:36 pm
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From flight data, we can ascertain that the only of the airline’s 787s in Hong Kong at the time was 4X-EDL. The Dreamliner arrived in Hong Kong on November 10th at 11:20 and was scheduled for departure that same evening at 22:00. Instead, it took off on November 12th at 18:10 and arrived back in Tel Aviv at 23:09.
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Feb 8, 2021, 7:44 pm
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I did not realize that. They are very wild cats in Israel. They don't like people.