A man who lurks in the front wheel storage of a cargo plane and endures a 9-hour flight is arrested
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The Royal Marechaussee has arrested a man who appears to have been lurking in the front wheel compartment of a cargo plane for nine hours.
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The smuggler found on a freighter at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands on January 23, 2022 is a 22-year-old Kenyan man believed to have boarded from Nairobi, Kenya. The front wheel compartment is known to be extremely cold and the oxygen level drops significantly when the cargo plane reaches cruising altitude, but the man recovered to a basic answer at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and then scrutinized. Was taken to the hospital for.
The freighter this man boarded was a Boeing 747 from Johannesburg to Amsterdam operated by Cargolux Airlines . The man in question is believed to have boarded the aircraft as it passed through Nairobi, Kenya, and is believed to have been lurking in the front wheel compartment for about nine hours from Nairobi, Kenya to Amsterdam.
The man is hoping for asylum, but the Royal Marechaussee has responded as of January 24 that he is investigating whether it is a trafficking case or an illegal border crossing.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States, a total of 132 people were confirmed worldwide between 1947 and November 2021 who stowawayed by hiding in the wheel storage of an airplane, of which 102, or 77%, died. It is said that it is doing. However, it is believed that the actual number of stowaways and fatalities is higher than recorded, as it is not possible to confirm the person who fell during flight at high altitude.
According to a Federal Aviation Administration study, on flights with cruising altitudes above 40,000 feet, wheel enclosure temperatures can reach -65 degrees Celsius and hypoxia causes them to fall unconsciously. There is also the possibility of being shaken off when the wheels are deployed. This case is described as 'miracle'.
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