16-year-old survives in wheel well of Maui flight
24 Apr 2014 • news.yahoo.comHONOLULU (AP) — Officials say a 16-year-old boy is "lucky to be alive" and unharmed after flying from California to Hawaii stowed away in a plane's wheel well, surviving cold temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen.
"Doesn't even remember the flight," FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu told The Associated Press on Sunday night. "It's amazing he survived that."
Somewhere in the very dark corners of my mind when flying I always wondered if this kind of thing was possible. I guess now I know the answer: Yes it is, but its highly unadvisable; much as I would have guessed.
And if you read all the way to the bottom:
In August, a 13- or 14-year-old boy in Nigeria survived a 35-minute trip in the wheel well of a domestic flight after stowing away. Authorities credited the flight's short duration and altitude of about 25,000. Others stowing away in wheel wells have died, including a 16-year-old killed after stowing away aboard a flight from Charlotte, N.C., to Boston in 2010 and a man who fell onto a suburban London street as a flight from Angola began its descent in 2012.
Ok, super-highly unadvisable and quite possibly deadly. So noted.