A passenger is in critical condition with hypothermia after being found in the landing gear compartment of an Air Algerie plane at Orly Airport in Paris, officials said.
The man, believed to be in his 20s, was found by maintenance workers after a flight from Oran, Algeria, landed in the French capital on Thursday morning, prosecutors told AFP.
An airport official said the man, who had no identification on him, was “alive but in a life-threatening condition due to severe hypothermia” after the two-and-a-half-hour flight.
Passengers in an unpressurized wheelhouse can face temperatures between minus 58 and minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit, as well as a lack of oxygen while flying at a cruising altitude of over 30,000 feet.
According to the US Federal Aviation Administration, 132 people attempted to fly in the landing gear compartment of commercial aircraft between 1947 and 2021.
The fatality rate for people flying this way is 77%, according to the FAA.
A passenger hides in the landing gear of a flight to Paris. SOPA/LightRocket image via Getty Images
In April, the body of a man was found in the gear well of a plane at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport that had arrived from Toronto, but had previously departed from Nigeria.
Four months earlier, two passengers were found dead in the landing gear of a flight from Santiago, Chile and Bogotá, Colombia.
In 2019, a frozen corpse landed in a man’s garden, narrowly missing him, after falling thousands of feet from a Kenya Airways plane flying over southwest London.
The passenger survived the flight from Oran to Paris on Air Algerie, but suffered hypothermia. Andia Group/Universal Images via Getty Images
Four years earlier, the body of a British Airways passenger from Johannesburg to London Heathrow Airport landed in a shop in Richmond, south-west of the capital.
A second passenger survived the 10-hour flight and was found at the bottom of the plane.
With Postal wire
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
