Missionary pilot Dave Douglas had an interesting flight in Papua New Guinea last week when he was asked to transport two boxes of cats.
Missionary Lori Morley ministering among the Norambis wanted a kitten. Dave dutifully delivered "Daisy" along with the supplies ordered by Lori and missionaries David and Sherry Ogg.
"After Lori took Daisy over to her house and let her out of the box," wrote Sherry, "she brought the box back to the plane and the three of us stood around the plane visiting with the pilot for awhile. It's always nice when the weather is good and the pilot has a little time to visit. After all, he is our link to civilization and loves to be an encouragement to us missionaries living in remote areas."
Dave related a "cat tale" that had the missionaries laughing uproariously as they pictured his description of the chaos caused by the cats.
The day before Dave was making a supply flight to a remote tribal area. Among the supplies were two cardboard boxes containing eight cats on their way to missionaries in another region. One cat was pregnant and placing her in a box the night before must have been stressful because the next morning three kittens had joined her in the box. The mother cat and three kittens were in one box and four older kittens in another box. Everything seemed to go well until the plane was in the air. Sometime during the flight the mother cat in her panic tore her way out of her box, then tore another hole in the box where the four older kittens were minding their own business.
She was in the process of moving her new kittens into the other box when the plane landed and the pilots opened the wing locker to discover the cat fiasco. They had quite a time catching the mother cat who was doing her best to protect her new kittens from the "enemy" pilots.
They finally managed to get the mother cat and her kittens back into their own box. But, in the van on their way to their new owners, the mother cat escaped again and was trying to move her kittens. She even climbed over one of the pilots who was sitting in the van and dropped her kitten in his lap. Finally the pilots breathed a sigh of relief as they reached their destination and all cats and kittens were safely handed over to their owners.
This is just one example of the adventures of a missionary pilot. There's never a routine flight. Find out more about the adventure.
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