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Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing (UPDATE @ #141)
RIA Novosti ^ | 24/ 09/ 2007 | Radio Maya

Posted on 09/25/2007 4:18:21 PM PDT by George from New England

MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.

After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukova Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto the tarmac. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes, the radio station said.

The airport did not confirm the report. "We have no information on this," the Vnukovo press service told RIA Novosti.

However, Moscow's air and water transport control department said the radio's claim was true. A department spokesman said the incident occurred on Friday, and that the boy's parents were immediately informed, and flew to the capital the same day.

Doctors said it was nothing short of a miracle that Andrei survived the flight, with temperatures hitting minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit), the radio station said. The Boeing-737 has a cruising speed of 900 kmh (560 mph).

The boy reportedly made the journey after a commonplace domestic dispute. Angry with his father, who reportedly has a drinking problem, and with his mother for siding with her husband in family rows, Andrei ran away to the neighboring village, where his grandmother lives. On reaching the village, he decided to go on, and hitched a 220-km (137-mile) ride to the regional center, Perm, where he was dropped off at the airport.

It remains unclear how Andrei was able to climb on a plane wing un-noticed, and the Perm Airport security service is being asked some serious questions, the radio station said.

Andrei is now being treated in a Moscow hospital, Radio Mayak said.


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Absolutely amazing
1 posted on 09/25/2007 4:18:24 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: George from New England

This sounds like BS. :)


2 posted on 09/25/2007 4:19:34 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: George from New England

I thought the Weekly World News was gone!


3 posted on 09/25/2007 4:20:29 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: George from New England
Sumpin's gotta be missing here....no way you survive -50 something for two hours.

Maybe it's the translation.

4 posted on 09/25/2007 4:20:56 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: George from New England

Anybody believes that, stand on your head.


5 posted on 09/25/2007 4:21:08 PM PDT by Petronski (Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs)
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To: EveningStar

Does the link look like B.S.


6 posted on 09/25/2007 4:21:11 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: George from New England

“after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.”

Riiiight. And Hillary Clinton is an evangelical Christian.


7 posted on 09/25/2007 4:21:30 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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8 posted on 09/25/2007 4:21:34 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: George from New England

Darwinski Award contender.


9 posted on 09/25/2007 4:21:40 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: Petronski

ROFL - not possible...try standing up or doing anything in a 560 mph wind....this kid would have been a kite


10 posted on 09/25/2007 4:21:51 PM PDT by Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
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To: George from New England

So how did he manage to stay on the wing and not get blown off?


11 posted on 09/25/2007 4:22:18 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: George from New England

No. But the story does. :)


12 posted on 09/25/2007 4:22:27 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: George from New England
Someone needs to post the picture of the being on the wing from the Twighlight Zone.
13 posted on 09/25/2007 4:22:30 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: EveningStar
"This sounds like BS."

I agree...


14 posted on 09/25/2007 4:23:05 PM PDT by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: George from New England

I saw it all! Batboy, Bigfoot and Elvis were there with him!!!


15 posted on 09/25/2007 4:23:09 PM PDT by inkling (exurbanleague.com)
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To: George from New England

no-way-in-hell


16 posted on 09/25/2007 4:23:38 PM PDT by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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To: George from New England
Seems pretty unlikely he'd be able to hang on to a wing in a 500mph breeze.. let alone be able to breathe at 35000 ft, in a 500mph breeze.

For two hours.

Gotta throw the BS flag on this one, up there with I Had Bigfoot's Baby.

17 posted on 09/25/2007 4:23:39 PM PDT by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: George from New England
Absolutely impossible. I’ve been in numerous hurricanes and was blown down by 90 mile per hour gusts. Supposedly this person holds onto a wing flying at 500+ MPH while surviving the ascent and descent and the extreme temperatures and lack of oxygen at 35,000 feet altitude.
18 posted on 09/25/2007 4:25:52 PM PDT by BKerr (Swap principle for power and you'll end up with neither!)
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To: xcamel
THOMPSON/WING BOY "08 !!!!!!!!
19 posted on 09/25/2007 4:26:00 PM PDT by cmsgop (Hillary's Milkshake is better than Your's, She could teach you, but you would rather go blind.......)
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To: George from New England
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Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing

Moonbat, propaganda, propaganda, demi-moonbat, questionable. So, umm, yeah, actually, the link looks like B.S. :) What I’d like to know is not how someone survives the air temp, but really, how does someone breathe in 400-500 knot winds for even ten minutes? Now, if you take it from being on the wing, to being /in/ the wing, that sounds far more likely.

20 posted on 09/25/2007 4:26:08 PM PDT by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
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