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.
No freaking way. In the landing gear wells, maybe, but on the wing? No way.
Yup, I’m calling Bolsheyvit!
Above 10,000 feet, he would have suffered from hypoxia.(not enough oxygen to breath).
I did that once. But it was a trans-Atlantic flight.
Obviously a die hard Gore supporter trying to get to Florida.
The video screen on my flight to Frankfurt showed the outside temp to be -60 as the flight passed over Greenland.
bbbbbrrrr...
No way.
A TWO HOUR FLIGHT for 137 miles?
Isn’t that an average of like 67 miles per hour???
That isn’t even take off speed.
Utter, pure cow waste. Totally preposterous.
Why in my day...I used to have to fly 500 miles to school
hanging on the wing of a 747, up hill both ways, some times
my hands would never defrost and the teacher would stand me in the corner and use me for a coat rack...
quote:
“Gotta throw the BS flag on this one, up there with I Had Bigfoot’s Baby.”
That cheating bxtrd . He told me I was the only one !
ROFLMAO!!!! One of my favorites.
That would be 68.5 mph if it were a 137 mile flight, which it wasn't.
Uh, they did let the parents ride inside, I hope.
Read it again, you missed something.
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