Doesn't sound like a fun game to me.
TSA must have been preoccupied groping passengers and crowding around the see-through monitors.
“survives flight to Hawaii in plane’s wheel well”
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How is it possible, just considering the temperature at 36,000 ft.?
Not to be believed.
I don’t know about this. There is no footage of the kid actually entering the wheel well prior to take off. 38000 feet and -50F for at least 4 hours with no thermal protection or supplemental O2? Could he survive for 20 minutes if he were blown out of an airlock in orbit?
That’s crazy, how the hell is he alive? 5 1/2 hours without O2? What is the percentage of O2 at 38k feet? It cant be that much!
How did this kid survive? Look at this:
“The temperature gradually drops until you get to about 38,000 feet, where it’s about 75 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.”
http://www.komonews.com/weather/faq/4347501.html
So not only couldn’t he breathe, he was also frozen!
Few yrs ago there was a stowaway from NC who fell out of the wheel well above Milton, MA, falling to his death
>>Authorities believe a 16 year old boy found dead last month on a Milton, MA street fell out of the wheel well of an aircraft. Last month, the suburb of Milton, MA, was horrified when the mutilated body of a teenager was found in the road. The body lacked identification, but was eventually found to be that of Delvonte Tisdale, age 16, from Charlotte, NC. The mystery of how he got there when he had been seen the night before in his bedroom seems to have been solved: authorities now believe he stowed away in the wheel well of an aircraft from Charlotte to Boston, and fell out as the airplane approached Logan airport.
I don’t believe the story of him being in the wheel well and surviving. If anything he was in the baggage hold and they want to keep that under wraps.
WOW !!! what an intellectually vacant writer. Unbelievable
We need to give the TSA more money, better pensions and guns to solve problems like this... /sarc
The partial pressure of oxygen would then be:
760 * 0.21 = 159 mmHg.
So the amount of the atmosphere, in pressure, that a person could use at sea level is 159 mmHg.
At 36,000 ft., the total atmospheric pressure is about 20% that of sea level, so the useful amount of oxygen, assuming the same 21% of the atmosphere is oxygen at that altitude is:
760 * 0.2 * 0.21 = 31.92 mmHg
or just 20% of that found at sea level.
So? What does that mean... That this kid is EXTREAMLY lucky on several fronts: Not to have frozen solid, not to have a blood embolism from the rapid pressure change (The bends), and not to have suffocated.
So security footage verified that he hopped a fence in San Jose and then he was wandering around on the tarmac in Maui airport.
Is there any other way he could have gotten on that flight because it is hard to believe that he could have survived in that wheel well.
No way this happened.
If somebody can stick himself into a wheel well, he can also stick a backpack bomb into the wheel well. Heads should roll over this.
Rosie Ruiz.
The only explanation must be that I rode in an airplane wheel well.
Unbelievable, indeed. In addition to the effects or cold and hypoxia, wheel well stowaways are often turned into hamburger crunch by the wheel retraction mechanism...
They see this in some stupid movie and try it themselves