2023-12-28 19:48:00
A man was discovered on Thursday hiding in the landing gear compartment of a commercial plane that flew to Paris from Algeria with severe hypothermia (XINHUA / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACTOPHOTO)
A man was discovered Thursday hiding in the landing gear compartment of a commercial airliner that flew to Paris from Algeria with severe hypothermia but alive, French authorities said.
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He had no identification and was taken to the hospital in serious condition, they said.
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An airport source previously reported that the man “was alive but in life-threatening condition due to severe hypothermia.”
Commercial airliners fly at 10,000 to 11,000 meters above sea level, where temperatures typically drop to around -50 degrees Celsius, and the lack of oxygen makes survival unlikely for anyone traveling in a landing gear compartment that does not. is heated or pressurized.
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According to data from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cited in the media, 132 people, known in the industry as stowaways, attempted to travel in the landing gear compartments of commercial airliners between 1947 and 2021.
The man, in his 20s, was found during technical checks after the Air Algerie flight from Oran, Algeria, landed at Paris’s Orly airport mid-morning (REUTERS/Charles Platiau)
In April this year, the body of a man was discovered in the landing gear of a plane at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport that had flown from Toronto, but had previously taken off from Nigeria.
Four months earlier, two passengers were found dead upon reaching the landing gear storage space of a flight between Santiago de Chile and Bogotá.
In July 2019, the frozen body of a man fell into a garden in a London suburb; He is believed to have been in the landing gear compartment of a Kenya Airways plane approaching Heathrow Airport.
The victim fell in the garden of a house in Clapham, southwest of London, where a man was sunbathing, a neighbor said, quoted by the British Press Association agency.
“At first I thought he was a homeless man sleeping in the garden,” he explained. “I was wearing his clothes. “I looked more closely and saw that there was blood on all the garden walls,” he said. “I quickly understood that he had fallen.”
The body fell with such force that it left a hole in the grass and in a garden slab, according to an image published by the tabloid The Sun.
This witness explained that he saw his neighbor “shocked.” “He was sunbathing and (the man) fell one meter away from him,” he said under anonymity.
The mortality rate for people attempting to travel this way is 77%, according to FAA figures.
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