Tabitha's owner, Carol Ann Timmel, said her pet escaped from a kennel in the cargo hold of a New York-to-Los Angeles flight on June 30.
Airline officials calculate the long-lost feline has since logged 30,000 miles (50,000 kilometers).
Joined by a cat psychic and an animal rescuer, Timmel found a thinner but healthy Tabitha behind a panel.
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