If it were a book or a movie, the title might be “Randall’s Big Adventure.”

Randall the cat, who made news after spending 19 days at the bottom of a chimney in his Goss Lake neighborhood in January, just had another harrowing adventure.

Randall, is a grayish, friendly feline known as the “miracle cat” of his Goss Lake neighborhood. Now “miracle” is an understatement.

Lin Johnson, the cat’s owner, was in the process of moving to California and taking Randall to her daughter’s home in Sacramento.

She was on a Northwest Airlines flight Monday from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Sacramento and she thought Randall was safely tucked in a carrier in the cargo hold of the plane.

But the fearless feline had escaped.

Somehow he got out of his carrier before it was loaded on the plane.

While Lin Johnson was in the air, her daughter Stella got a phone call from Northwest Airlines officials telling her Randall got out of his carrier.

“They told me he was running around on the tarmac with the airplanes. Those were their exact words. They didn’t know how he escaped,” she said.

Fortunately, Randall was wearing a leash and collar with Stella’s telephone number in California. It came in handy when Randall was later caught by a ground crew at the airport.

“They put him on a later flight and we picked him up at the airport,” Stella Johnson said.

The feline survived the big adventure without injury.

Stella Johnson said she raised Randall from a kitten.

“He was so small, as tiny as my hand. We bottle fed him so he is very special to us,” she said.

“Randall will be kept pretty close to home now,” she added. “I won’t be letting him outdoors.”

Randall’s previous adventure began on New Year’s Eve when he went missing from Lin Johnson’s Goss Lake Home.

He was found 19 days later at the bottom of a chimney in a vacant home near the lake.

Just how and why Randall got on the roof of a neighbor’s home was a mystery. But the 2-year-old cat was rescued unhurt from the chimney after a neighbor, Gordon Marley, put a loop on the end of a rope, lowered it down the chimney and then spun it like a lasso around Randall’s head. Once the cat put a paw inside the loop, Marley pulled him up to freedom.

Gayle Saran can be reached at 221-5300 orgsaran@southwhidbeyrecord.com