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To: V_TWIN

I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.


8 posted on 09/29/2025 7:05:47 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: Larry Lucido; woodbutcher1963

Another article I read stated 77% of people trying this die.


12 posted on 09/29/2025 7:11:19 AM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: Larry Lucido
I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.

I remember a young man successfully doing it from Nigeria or Afghanistan to London years ago.

While searching, I found this article from just six days ago. It's a young man's game.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp987j57lxko

18 posted on 09/29/2025 7:14:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Larry Lucido

It has been, but is very risky. The original case that popularized this was that of a Cuban kid who stowed away on a flight from Havana to Madrid. He was unconscious and very cold when he arrived, but he survived.


20 posted on 09/29/2025 7:18:00 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Larry Lucido

Apparently according to the Google it is successful about 13% of the time. Meaning 77% of the time you arrive dead. You die from lack of O2 and then freeze to death.

However, this happened just last week:

“An Afghan boy traveled from Kabul to Delhi by hiding in the landing gear compartment of a plane, Indian authorities have said.
From a CNN article about the incident.

There was another incident when an Algerian man survived a flight and was found just barely alive when it landed in Paris in 2023.

The boy, who authorities estimated was about 13 years old, was found wandering around the tarmac near where the plane had parked shortly after it had landed on Sunday morning,”


23 posted on 09/29/2025 7:22:10 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Larry Lucido

So Sorry, me bad at math.

It is successful 23% of the time.
Still not very good odds.

Less than 1 in 4. I probably would buy a ticket. even in coach.


25 posted on 09/29/2025 7:25:36 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Larry Lucido

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/afghan-boy-travelled-two-hours-plane-wheel-well-how-stowaways-survive-at-35000-feet-altitude-low-temperature-oxygen-2792105-2025-09-24


32 posted on 09/29/2025 7:34:46 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: Larry Lucido

“I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.”

Many have. Latest was last week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel-well_stowaway#List_of_wheel-well_stowaways


54 posted on 09/29/2025 8:28:00 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: Larry Lucido
I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.

I heard it working . . . ONCE.

The young man was in pretty bad shape.
59 posted on 09/29/2025 8:49:01 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Larry Lucido

It was successful at least once 30 or 40 years ago.The person ended up with severe frostbite.


62 posted on 09/29/2025 9:06:41 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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