Where did the dog from flight AF1139 go? Significant resources have been deployed for several days at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, to try to find a dog who has been wandering for a week.
Amalka, aged two, managed to escape from her transport cage during unloading operations from an Air France flight from Vienna on Tuesday November 19. When the hold opened after landing, the dog, who had gotten out of her cage, fled onto the runways.
From, “everything is done to try to find her“, assure the airport authorities, interviewed by franceinfo. Air France also immediately launched research to find the animal, through an action plan put in place across the entire airport platform, with , in particular, the distribution to all staff of a wanted notice with a photo of the animal and information allowing it to be identified.
The dog has been seen several times since last Tuesday, such as in a video where she is seen walking among planes.
Its owner, Míša, is a 29-year-old Czech tourist who was going to Dallas, in the United States, to see her companion. Faced with this situation, she decided to stay there while she found her dog. Air France covers hotel and catering costs. “I'm depressed because I've been living at the airport for a week and I still don't have my dog”she confides.
In total, around twenty people are mobilized. Several searches were organized with airline staff and volunteers, as well as the Paris fire brigade and the air traffic police who even mobilized a drone, in vain. Volunteers from the Cats in the Air association also volunteered to search the airport for the missing animal.
The dog does not allow herself to be captured, even by her owner. “I approached her very kindly, raconte Misha, I called her by name, but it's so much pressure for her, she's never been on a plane before… She's never been in such a noisy environment.”
“I feel like she doesn’t trust me.”
Míša about her dog Amalkaat franceinfo
The Czech tourist was allowed to go to the slopes to try to find her dog, which “is not trivial“, according to Aéroports de Paris (ADP) because prefectural authorization is required. Her animal is essential for Míša, because she suffers from attention disorder: “Amalka is very important to my therapy. We're supposed to be together all the time because she helps me focus on her when I lose concentration.”
Air France ensures that it understands and shares this woman's emotion and indicates that it has never put so much effort into finding an animal. And the company concludes: “We have deployed resources never before used“.
