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Cuban jet stowaway survives sub-zero temperatures in wheel well [Hold muh (frozen) beer alert]
Cleveland Plain Dealer ^
| 12/11/02
| Associated Press
Posted on 12/11/2002 5:50:50 PM PST by fone
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Pedro learns his first English phrase:
So that's what they mean by COLD as a well-digger's arse!
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posted on
12/11/2002 5:50:50 PM PST
by
fone
To: mhking
Ping list if you don't mind!
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posted on
12/11/2002 5:51:20 PM PST
by
fone
To: MadIvan; Las Vegas Dave; dubyaismypresident
Thought you'd enjoy this tidbit...
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posted on
12/11/2002 5:53:36 PM PST
by
fone
To: fone
Good grief. Are the wheelwells on commercial airliners pressurized? Otherwise I don't see how this guy could've survived four hours at FL300.
}:-)4
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posted on
12/11/2002 6:09:55 PM PST
by
Moose4
To: fone
Well Done Sir !
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posted on
12/11/2002 6:14:19 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: fone
Did that joker remember to bring my stogies. If not, send him back duct-taped to the fuselage.
To: fone
Balls of steele.
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posted on
12/11/2002 7:10:34 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: fone
Why would he do this to leave a socialist paradise?
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posted on
12/11/2002 7:13:19 PM PST
by
Leisler
To: Moose4
I don't see how this guy could've survived four hours at FL300. That is very strange. Is there another case on record of someone surviving altitudes above 15k feet for hours on end?
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posted on
12/11/2002 7:22:17 PM PST
by
jlogajan
To: jlogajan
I'm quite comfortable flying my hang glider at 16k+ for many hours. I start feeling it whenever I get too much above 18, though.
To: fone; mhking
Is going to that length to escape the Castro socialist worker's paradise to win freedom a hold muh beer alert? I think not. I hope they grant him asylum, but I'm afraid they'll probably give him an Elian.
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posted on
12/11/2002 7:39:34 PM PST
by
altair
To: Technocrat
Here's a pic I got last summer, from about 15k. It was cold, but not too bad. :)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; FreedomPoster; Timesink; AntiGuv; ...
I'd like a frosted mug with that beer, please!
"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....
If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
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posted on
12/11/2002 7:59:39 PM PST
by
mhking
To: fone
The fool gave up his free health care!
< /sarcasm>
To: Technocrat
Wow! That looks almost like it was taken from a commercial airliner. How do you get up that high? Thermals?
To: jlogajan
Try most of the mountains in Nepal.
To: Mr. Jeeves
Wow! That looks almost like it was taken from a commercial airliner. How do you get up that high? Thermals?
That's what's under every single one of those nice puffy clouds - a 1500 foot per minute elevator ride from the desert floor to dewpoint.
To: fone; MadIvan; dubyaismypresident
Reminds me of the story of the one that didn't make it a few years ago, I think the headline read, "Body falls out of sky"!
To: fone
Two years ago, two Cuban teenagers died trying to leave the island as stowaways on board a British passenger plane. Their bodies were found in Britain after they hid in the wheel compartment of a British Airways jet from Havana to London at Christmas.
This year, the body of a stowaway, believed to be from Africa, was found in the wheel compartment of a freight plane at London's Heathrow Airport. He is believed to have frozen to death.***
The Associated Press*** L O S A N G E L E S, Aug. 5 - A nearly frozen stowaway survived subzero temperatures and little oxygen at 38,000 feet inside the wheel well of a jumbo jet on an eight-hour flight from Tahiti. The 6-foot, 180-pound man, who remains unidentified, was responding to treatment and communicating with doctors Friday, but he was covered with gear oil and moaning when paramedics arrived at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday night. His core body temperature was 79 degrees Fahrenheit when he arrived at the UCLA Medical Center for treatment of hypothermia and dehydration, hospital spokesman David Langness said. With the jet traveling 600 mph at 38,000 feet, the air temperature would have been below zero, "and who knows with the wind chill," Langness said.
'A Remarkable Story' "His clothes were shredded from the wind, and he was covered with grease," he said. "It is a remarkable story. We don't know of any other person whose body temperature dropped this low who has survived." Anything below 85 degrees Fahrenheit is usually fatal, Langness said. The man was moved Friday afternoon from the intensive care unit to a hospital ward floor, Langness said. The man is able to write notes in French and English but responds indirectly when asked about his identity, Langness said. He cannot speak, and doctors are still testing his brain and organ functions. Air France Flight 71 from Papeete, French Polynesia, arrived in Los Angeles. At the terminal gate, a maintenance worker spotted a blanket hanging from a wheel well on the Boeing 747-400 and notified authorities when he found the man.***
To: Las Vegas Dave
Friday, August 10, 2001 -
Stowaway's body falls from plane *** ISLAND PARK, New York -- A body that landed in a parking lot outside New York City this week apparently fell from the wheel well of an aeroplane after a flight from London, police said yesterday. The unidentified man was stowed away aboard American Airlines Flight 131. His body landed outside a restaurant in Island Park, a New York suburb that is in the flight path of many planes. An airline mechanic said he saw the body fall from the plane when the landing gear was lowered. -- Sapa-AP***
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