Globe-trotting moggie Ozzy clocked up 63,000 miles after getting lost in a plane.

The jet-set cat escaped into the cargo hold and stowed away for ten days.

Owners Jonathan Boyd, 26, and his girlfriend, Katie Deacon, 27, had taken Ozzy in as a stray while they were living in Doha, Quatar, in the Middle East.

When they returned to Britain they could not bear to be parted from the cat and paid for him to be sent back to the UK on an earlier flight.

After packing the frightened feline into a plastic cage designed for internationally transporting animals, he was loaded on to a British Airways flight to Heathrow.

However, when the flight made a stopover in Bahrain, airport workers discovered that the fearless feline had managed to escape from the cage.

Despite a search of the plane, Ozzy was nowhere to be seen and the flight continued on its destination.

Workers at Heathrow then searched the aircraft from top to bottom but when there was no sign of the escapee, they concluded that Ozzy must have run away when the hold was opened in Bahrain.

Jonathan said: "We were both really upset, Katie especially, and we thought that was it, we had lost him for good.

"BA put posters up but there wasn't much hope of finding him. We flew back on June 27 and then on July 3 we got a phone call to say that Ozzy had been found on the same plane he had disappeared on.

"He had hidden away on there for the whole ten days going backwards and forwards to the Middle East twice a day."

Jonathan and Katie are now staying with Jonathan's parents in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Ozzy is fighting back to full health at a kennels while he serves six months quarantine.