Video shows cat stalking Delta Airlines plane and terrifying flight attendant after escaping from cage

The feline was thousands of feet in the air when it broke free from its cage

The animal was thousands of feet in the air on board a Delta Airlines when it escaped (Kandra Covert)

Video footage has emerged showing the moment an escaped cat terrified cabin crew on board a plane.

The animal was thousands of feet in the air on board a Delta Airlines plane when it somehow broke free from its cage.

Clearly agitated, the cat is seen prowling the aisles as cabin crew do their best to calm it down and return it to its enclosure.

The furious feline is reluctant to be caged, however, and manages to avoid being tricked into climbing into a rucksack by one innovative member of Delta staff.

Eventually the attendants gave up trying to capture the animal themselves and be heard on the plane’s speaking system asking for help.

“Whoever’s cat this is please come and… wake them up if you see them with the cat carrier, I need them to come and get their pet,” the flight attendant said.

The cat’s owner quickly appears and after spending some time trying to convince her pet to calm down, appeared to get the situation under control.

The footage has been widely shared online after a passenger calling herself Kandra Covert uploaded it to YouTube.

Branding the incident a “CATastrophe”, she wrote: “Cat got loose on my Delta flight this morning... Flight attendant did not like cats, haha.”

American carrier Delta Airlines generally allows pets to travel in the cabin on internal flights in the US, although it insists the animals remain in their cage at all times while on board.