PLANE ABORTS LANDING DUE TO COUGAR ON THE RUNWAY

A passenger flight attempting to land at an Idaho airport aborted its first approach due to a mountain lion on the runway. Friedman Memorial Airport officials confirmed the Delta flight from Salt Lake City was forced to wait Saturday evening when the cougar trotted across the runway in the path the plane would have taken. Airport Manager Chris Pomeroy said the cougar had initially been spotted at the south end of the airport and officials thought they had the big cat contained, but it gave employees the slip and headed toward the runway. Eventually they used a vehicle to herd the animal into a fenced-in area surrounding the control tower. An Idaho Department of Fish and Game conservation officer responded to the scene and shot the mountain lion. A Fish and Game spokesman said if they had let it out of the gate, it would have run out onto Highway 75, and besides, the officer on scene was not trained to use a tranquilizer gun due to under-staffing issues, and the predator likely would not have been relocated by the department anyway due to its apparent comfort in human spaces.
* Also, it was scary and they think there were maybe spiders on it.
* And that’s the report from C-Y-A News in Idaho.
* They tried to get it into the control tower ’cause imagine how hilarious that would be!
* It would have run out onto Highway 75? So it likes to take planes AND hitch-hike?
* Cougar on the runway. Demi Moore really should know she should stay inside the terminal.