Boy Survives Flight Hiding in Jet's Landing Gear

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Boy Survives Flight Hiding in Jet's Landing Gear

URL: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=7&u=/nm/20041112/od_nm/flight_dc

BEIJING (Reuters) - A 14-year-old homeless boy who stowed away in the landing gear of a passenger jet survived a 430-mile flight across southwest China, state media reported on Friday.

But a friend riding with him fell from the plane and died during Thursday's hour-long flight between Kunming and Chongqing, which reached an altitude of about 23,000 feet.

"The survivor was found by porters at Chongqing airport ... The boy who survived the flight said the other boy fell from the aircraft when it took off," the official Xinhua news agency said.
 
23,000 feet.... :shock:

Amazing. Though it's a pity that his friend fell to his death.
 
I'm surprised he survived at all. I've read stories where people either freeze to death (even in summer time) or the air gets too thin and they die. I didn't realize how common this practice was until reading a story about a body found in a wheelwell. The story I read back then that more people die from it than survive. Goes to show the extreme people will go through to get out of their situation (much like cubans and their methods to get to US).
 
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