A Homer, Alaska-area dog is lucky to be alive after nearly getting hit by a Cessna 207 coming in for a landing at the Nanwalek airstrip Monday afternoon, the pooch avoiding a gruesome fate after the single-engine plane’s pilot pulled up at the last second, KTUU reports citing NTSB officials.

“What we understand now is that there may have been an animal, namely a dog, that was on the runway. The pilot initiated a go-around. There was also another company airplane behind – he was talking to that airplane at the same time – said he was initiating the go-around, made a right turn away from the runway, pretty steep climb, and unfortunately, there was a loss of control,” NTSB state chief Clint Johnson told reporters, not mentioning any detail about the dog like if it was a mischievous little Lab puppy with an adorable wet nose named Dodger or Zowie or Corduroy.

“We don’t want to draw any conclusions at this point,” Johnson added, again not describing the dog’s color and what kind of chew toys he or she likes to play with. “We still are in the very formative stages. We are going to be looking very closely at that airplane. We are in the recovery process right now to get that airplane back to Homer and probably eventually back to Anchorage here where we are going to lay it out and make sure there are no mechanical issues that led to this loss of control.”

“Rescuers were able to pull that wreckage up a little bit further away from the water, but nevertheless it is in the tide zone,” Johnson, who is obviously a cat person, said about the plane and the dead people and the one guy who survived with horrible injuries and blah blah blah and not about the canine who made a mistake but is still a good doggie and deserves a treat.