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Article: Qld: Canine Houdini escapes from aircraft cargo hold
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2003
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Qld: Canine Houdini escapes from aircraft cargo hold
By Jordan Baker
TOWNSVILLE, Jan 24 AAP - A silky terrier has proven to be a canine
Houdini by breaking
out of an aircraft cargo hold and leaping onto the tarmac.
Five-year-old Moe was travelling on a Virgin flight from Sydney
to Cairns on Monday
when he managed to find his way out of an approved cage.
Virgin Blue spokeswoman Amanda Bolger said Moe, who had a history
of Houdini-like escapes,
became curious and began running around the luggage hold.
"He has jumped up on the cargo hold door and pushed ... the emergency
release handle
with his paws in flight," she told AAP today.
The cargo ...