Posted on 11/27/2021 3:55:11 PM PST by BenLurkin
The man was in the wheel well area when the flight arrived from Guatemala City, Guatemala, at 10:06 a.m., officials said.
News outlets reported that Flight 1182 was met by law enforcement due to a security issue.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers took the man into custody, the agency said in a news release. Medics took the man to a hospital for a medical assessment.
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How did they know he was there?
How did he not freeze to death?
I wish this guy had not given the airlines ideas for a new sub-economy class ticket.
How did his innards keep from expanding out his orifices due to de-pressurizing? Shouldn’t he get a better travel agent?
What’s the success rate of wheel-well stowaways? Must be pretty low, though I know a few have made it.
Why would anybody leave a utopia completely free of white supremacists?
NY Times 2010
BOSTON A North Carolina teenager whose body was found in a Boston suburb last month had most likely stowed away inside a plane’s wheel well and fallen as it lowered its landing gear, the authorities said Friday.
The remains of the youth, Delvonte Tisdale, 16, were found in a quiet neighborhood in Milton, Mass., on Nov. 15, below a flight path to Logan Airport.
“It appears more likely than not that Mr. Tisdale was able to breach airport security and hide in the wheel well of a commercial jet airliner without being detected by airport security,” William R. Keating, Norfolk County district attorney, said at a news conference on Friday afternoon.
Mr. Keating said he had alerted federal authorities and the airport in Charlotte, N.C., where the teenager is believed to have gotten on the flight, about the events. While the case is a sad one, Mr. Keating said, it also underscores fears that someone with malicious intent could do the same thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/us/11plane.html
The known failure rate is reported to be 76%
https://airportscouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FBI-Stowaway-Presentation.pdf
Maybe he was a white supremacist and was looking for a place where the black and brown people aren’t so uppity?
Cockpit system indicators may have told them something was not right. My question is, how did he survive? Most who try this, don’t.
Why? He wanted to be a big wheel I guess
Doesn’t he know the only legitimate way into the US is thru the Mexican border on the ground?
All others arrested.
And the unknown failure rate must be 100%, or as near as makes no difference. I think I won’t try it.
Although at least I wouldn’t have to wear a mask.
“How did he not freeze to death?”
My question.
Hate to say this but couldn’t such a person be a suicide bomber who could then blow up his bomb as the plane is in the air? Probably dressed in baggage coveralls.
I didn’t see anyone trying to stowaway on an airplane in any of those pictures
Like the wife of a Mafia leader had to go out in the morning and soot under the husband’s car to look for a bomb and then start the ignition. If she didn’t blow up, the guy could finish his coffee and go to work.
Now TSA will send out a lackey to do that. Or the criminal could hide with a bomb under that wheel well.
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