it attacked the FO - albeit far-fetched but it could have been trained to attack the crew
NN - what are you smoking? Train a cat to attack a man in a white shirt with two, three or four gold bars on his shoulders!
Have you ever owned a cat? Clearly not - even Barbara Woodhouse didn't attempt to persuade a moggy to sit or walk on a lead, so why do you expect Osama's bunch to try something far harder?