On February 5, a 16-year-old Kenyan teenager, who was trying to smuggle himself from the UK to the Netherlands, managed to land at a Dutch airport after surviving the frigid temperatures by clinging to the landing gear of the plane and flying 5,800 meters above. The boy was found with his hands still clinging to the landing gear, but he is still hospitalized due to hypothermia, and authorities are investigating the matter.
16-year-old boy clinging to the landing gear of the plane successfully arrived in the Netherlands
According to the Daily Mail, the Dutch gendarmerie (KMar) has tweeted that they found a 16-year-old Kenyan teenager on the landing gear of a plane at Maastricht-Aachen Airport on February 5. It is reported that the teenager was smuggled into the Netherlands, while the cargo plane was parked on a tarmac in the United Kingdom, clinging to its landing gear to fly up to 5,800 meters in the air. And survived the cold temperatures at high altitude, and successfully reached the Dutch airport.
Currently, the boy is hospitalized due to hypothermia. Fortunately, the boy is doing quite well.
KMar added that the KMar unit in Limburg will investigate the stowaway and whether he is connected to a human trafficking ring.
This is not the first case of stowaway hiding in the landing gear of an airplane.
10-year-old stowaway dies on landing gear
Back in January 2020, an Air France flight from Côte d’Ivoire to Paris was surprised to find a 10-year-old stowaway dead on the landing strip upon arrival at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport.
AFP and other foreign media reported that on January 7, 2020, an Air France flight AF703, a Boeing 777, took off from Abidjan International Airport in Côte d’Ivoire and arrived at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport after a flight of about six hours.
Reports say that shortly after the plane landed, airport staff on the plane’s landing gear, found the young African who was about 10 years old and suspected of being a stowaway, but there were no signs of Life at the Time.
A French police officer said that this kind of smuggling way is extremely rare, because the plane flew to high altitude, the temperature will become very low, hiding in the landing gear of the plane stowaway almost no chance to survive.
African man freezes to death on plane landing gear
According to the British Daily Mail 2019 report. on September 30, 2019, Royal Air Maroc (Royal Air Maroc) a flight, scheduled to fly from the capital of Guinea Conakry (Conakry) to Morocco, and then transfer to France.
But early in the morning of Sept. 30 local time, ground staff at Casablanca airport found the body of a man under the plane’s landing gear.
Authorities believe the man was trying to smuggle himself onto the plane to smuggle himself out of the country, but may have frozen to death just as the plane took off from Conakry, where temperatures can plummet to -63 degrees Celsius after takeoff.
In June 2019, a Kenyan stowaway also smuggled himself onto a flight to London, only to be suspected of freezing to death at high altitude before falling from a height and crashing his body into the garden of a Home in south London.
The media had also previously reported on a stowaway who managed to reach his destination airport by hiding in the landing gear of a plane. The stowaway was found frozen stiff but still alive.
Although he was very lucky to escape the fate of being frozen to death at high altitude, he could not escape the fate of being repatriated on the spot in the end.
Chinese man hides in the gap of airliner to smuggle himself into the United States
In October 2012, a man from mainland China stowed away in the gap of a Taiwan China Airlines flight to San Francisco and made his way to the United States.
Taiwanese media reported that the man took a flight from Pudong, Shanghai to Taipei Airport, and then used the gap in the cabin to climb through the bed partition in the flight attendant lounge and into the electrical communication channel above the rear cabin of the plane, hiding there for 16 hours and flying 11,000 kilometers illegally.
Upon arrival in the U.S., the man was caught by the U.S. authorities when he mingled with passengers at the San Francisco airport and attempted to break through U.S. customs.
At the time, the report also cited a microblogger, “the night is late,” said that in about 2010, a domestic airline had such cases, “snakeheads” arranged for stowaways in the domestic section of the boarding, in the transfer to the international section of the flight to sneak into the electrical room, to reach the destination and then blend in with the passengers. The “snakeheads” arranged for the stowaways to board the plane on the domestic leg, sneak into the electrical booth during the international leg, and then blend in with the passengers upon arrival at their destination.
It is alleged that generally only the 747-200 aircraft has the structural conditions for such smuggling, and the “snakeheads” have detailed flight plans for each aircraft.
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