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16 yr old survives 5.5 hour flight in wheel well of plane to Maui from San Jose
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:38 am
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:38 am
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A 16-year-old boy stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii on Sunday, surviving the trip halfway across the Pacific Ocean unharmed despite frigid temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen, FBI and airline officials said.
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Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:41 am to barry
I've had it with these motherfricking runaways, on this motherfricking plane
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:44 am to barry
That's wanting a free trip to the islands pretty damn bad.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:45 am to barry
The reason for him doing this is? running away from parents?
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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.
This post was edited on 4/21/14 at 9:48 am
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:48 am to barry
Round of applause for San Jose airport security. It's comforting to know that anybody can scale a fence and sneak onto an aircraft undetected.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:52 am to barry
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the boy from Santa Clara, Calif., hopped a fence to get to Hawaiian Airlines Flight 45 on Sunday
meanwhile a toddler wearing mickey mouse ears was strip searched by TSA. Great security job guys
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:54 am to barry
Crazy
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:56 am to JBeam
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a man who fell onto a suburban London street as a flight from Angola began its descent in 2012.
How'd you like to be walking down the street and have that land in front of you?
I'm thinking DiCaprio/Sheen from "The Departed".
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:59 am to barry
It takes a special kind of stupid to decide that trying this is a good idea.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:07 am to barry
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That has some experts questioning his story.
"It sounds really incredible," said aviation expert Jeff Wise. "Being in a wheel well is like all of a sudden being on top of Mount Everest."
Between the oxygen depletion and the cold, life expectancy "is measured in minutes," Wise said.
I am calling BS on this report. If he did manage to get into that compartment he would be DOA.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:27 am to barry
Didn't think this was possible ... crazy
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:30 am to barry
Are they gonna charge him for the flight?
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:31 am to rebeloke
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I am calling BS on this report. If he did manage to get into that compartment he would be DOA.
Yeah, I'm not sure how this kid survived. The story said it was due to the fact the flight was "short and only got up to 25,000 feet". But that still means this kid survived little oxygen and temps of about -30 F for five and a half hours.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:36 am to JBeam
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and a man who fell onto a suburban London street as a flight from Angola began its descent in 2012.
I remember this, crazy shite
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:38 am to Darth_Vader
Alot of warm clothes and a mask... Lmao
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:44 am to barry
Life magazine, 1970:
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A young stowaway, Keith Sapsford, 14, falls 200 feet to his death yesterday from a Japan Airlines jet airliner taking off from Sydney, Australia, and bound for Tokyo. Photo was taken by Sydney amateur photographer John Gilpin. The boy had run away from a "boys' town" in Sydney Saturday to see the world. He apparently stowed away in the wheel housing of the airliner several hours before the plane took off. When the door of the wheel housing was opened after takeoff so the wheel could be retracted, the boy fell to his death.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:48 am to JBeam
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Authorities credited the flight's short duration and altitude of about 25,000.
Maui to San Jose at 5.5 hours is considered a sort duration?
Posted on 4/21/14 at 10:55 am to barry
I think the kid's on to something. I mean, how much more cramped and dangerous is flying in a wheel well than flying in a typical economy seat? Plus, no screaming babies to bother you.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 11:01 am to TigerPanzer
The only way it is possible is to go into a cryogenic state, so he did not age for 5.5 hrs. 
Posted on 4/21/14 at 11:18 am to rebeloke
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I am calling BS on this report. If he did manage to get into that compartment he would be DOA.
The report didn't offer an explanation on how this kid survived, but it did mention that he was unconscious for nearly all of it. Maybe you don't need as much oxygen when you're passed out?
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