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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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KEYWORDS: amazing; barbarastreisand; blueice; miracles; rumor
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Absolutely amazing
To: George from New England
To: George from New England
I thought the Weekly World News was gone!
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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.)
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.
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posted on
09/25/2007 4:20:56 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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)
To: EveningStar
Does the link look like B.S.
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.
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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...)
To: al baby; Allegra; Auntbee; BJClinton; Dashing Dasher; dfwddr; exile; feinswinesuksass; ...
"Tard" refers to the ping list members and not to the subject of the thread.
To: George from New England
Darwinski Award contender.
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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...)
To: Petronski
ROFL - not possible...try standing up or doing anything in a 560 mph wind....this kid would have been a kite
To: George from New England
So how did he manage to stay on the wing and not get blown off?
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posted on
09/25/2007 4:22:18 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: George from New England
No. But the story does. :)
To: George from New England
Someone needs to post the picture of the being on the wing from the Twighlight Zone.
To: EveningStar
"This sounds like BS." I agree...
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posted on
09/25/2007 4:23:05 PM PDT
by
Jaxter
("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
To: George from New England
I saw it all! Batboy, Bigfoot and Elvis were there with him!!!
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posted on
09/25/2007 4:23:09 PM PDT
by
inkling
(exurbanleague.com)
To: George from New England
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posted on
09/25/2007 4:23:38 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(FDT/2008)
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.
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posted on
09/25/2007 4:23:39 PM PDT
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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.
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posted on
09/25/2007 4:25:52 PM PDT
by
BKerr
(Swap principle for power and you'll end up with neither!)
To: xcamel
THOMPSON/WING BOY "08 !!!!!!!!
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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.......)
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.
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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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