12/28/2023 6:49 pm (current 12/28/2023 6:49 pm)
Stowaway on the landing gear of an Air Algerie aircraft (file image) ©APA/AFP
A stowaway was found in a life-threatening condition in the landing gear compartment of an Air Algeria plane at Orly airport in Paris on Thursday. Portal learned this in security circles. The person is receiving medical treatment at a nearby hospital, he said. The plane came from Oran, Algeria, and the flight time was about two and a half hours.
In machine chassis boxes, the temperature can drop to minus 50 to minus 60 degrees Celsius at high altitudes. Additionally, the wheel arches are not part of the pressurized cabin, where there is a lack of oxygen at these altitudes.
In 2019, the body of a stowaway fell hundreds of meters from a plane flying over southwest London. She threw herself into the garden of a man who was sunbathing. In 2015, the body of a stowaway on a British Airways flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow landed in a shop in southwest London. A second stowaway survived the ten-hour flight and was found in the landing gear compartment.