Stowaway in the landing gear of an American Airlines Boeing
From Aviation HQ@2:292/854 to All on Tue Nov 30 20:20:58 2021
Police have arrested a stowaway hiding in the landing gear of an American Airlines plane. He flew almost unnoticed from Guatemala City to Miami in this way on Sunday.
The 26-year-old man had climbed aboard the Boeing 737-800 in Guatemala and miraculously survived his adventure: at cruising altitude the temperature can drop considerably and the air is also low in oxygen. The man was arrested and taken to hospital.
It is common for stowaways to crawl into the landing gear of an airplane. No fewer than 129 illegal migrants have been found there since 1947 in the US alone. Most of them did not survive their journey.