Paris airport closes runways and deploys drone in search for dog that escaped from plane
Dog found 3 weeks after escaping at Atlanta airport
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Two runways were closed at Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport Tuesday as officials tried to capture a dog a week after it escaped from an aircraft, Air France and airport sources said.
Since the dog, a female, slipped out of a carrier cage last Tuesday during an unloading operation, there has been an intense search for the pet, owned by an Austrian tourist who came to France on Air France from Vienna.
Airport police needed to deploy a search drone Tuesday, requiring the closures.
Chihuahua mix named Maia escaped from her carrier and ran onto an active runway at Atlanta’s airport. The incident occurred while the dog was being transferred between Delta Air Lines and the airport after her owner was detained for not having the proper documents to enter the U.S. Maia was eventually found by a Good Samaritan after 22 days on the tarmac
Source: cbsnews.com