The whites of his eyes say it all. A pilot received the shock of his life, midflight, when a furry stowaway decided to stick its head into the cockpit - from the outside.
Romain Jantot was flying with a female passenger in an open-cockpit glider over French Guiana when he saw a windswept cat clinging to the wing for dear life.
His YouTube video, which has gathered nearly 1.5 million views since Sunday, shows the pilot had no idea about the cat for at least a minute .
The video captures the black and white cat slowly wriggling towards the cockpit. It then hooks its paws over a bar, and then appears unfazed about the huge drop below.
The pilot keeps turning his head to stare at the creature in disbelief. The passenger remains oblivious to the feline stowaway for another half a minute.
"A standard flight until … I still don't know if it got in after the pre-flight check or if I missed it," Mr Jantot said in the video's description on YouTube.
At the end, Mr Jantot is seen hopping out of the ultralight plane as it comes to a halt on the tarmac and rushing to the cat's rescue. But the brazen cat leaps, nonchantly, through his arms.
"The cat is doing well, she is still our mascot," he said.
French Guiana is on the northeast coast of South America.
