Cat in the cockpit forces emergency landing

Shiver Me Timbers wrote
Now imagine if you had been so distracted or even attacked by this cat,
and had crashed your plane and been killed.

Could easily have happened. If the vis had not been good enough for
me to see those lights in the distance, I could easily have lost
control of the airplane, what with no visible horizon and all flight
instruments blocked.

There would be a good chance that the cat survived the accident and
would be able to escape through a hole or popped out door or window.

Right.

Now imagine the next day when the NTSB and others are looking
at the wreck trying to figure out why your plane came down.

No problem. They would simply decide that I lost control of the
airplane after losing visual references. They would reconcile that
with my instrument experience by citing the non-standard layout of the
panel and the old-fashioned instruments.

It would be about as accurate as most NTSB reports of light GA
crashes.

Michael