Alligator is caught sleeping in the landing gear of a Boeing and takes work to remove

Soldiers at an American air base were shocked when they spotted an alligator sleeping in the landing gear of a Boeing refueling plane. The Alligator was between the two sets of wheels on a Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker at MacDill Air Force Base on the west coast of Florida.

The refueling plane was parked and had its tires chocked, and the animal took the opportunity to take a break.

The Air Force soldiers called the local police, who are used to capturing alligatorsand they had a little difficulty removing the animal from the yard, as shown in images shared on the networks.

Despite the scare, neither the person nor the animal was injured, and the alligator He was released hours later into a nearby river. MacDill Air Force Base is located at the end of a peninsula that enters Tampa Bay, and is surrounded by mangroves and has fresh and salt water, with the presence of several species being quite common.