{"id":17074,"date":"2022-01-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=17074"},"modified":"2022-01-25T01:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:41:25","slug":"stowaway-survives-7-hour-flight-in-boeing-747-landing-gear-compartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/stowaway-survives-7-hour-flight-in-boeing-747-landing-gear-compartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowaway survives 7-hour flight in Boeing 747 landing gear compartment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">A stowaway has been found in a\u00a0<strong>landing gear compartment of a Cargolux Boeing 747<\/strong> after the aircraft landed in\u00a0Amsterdam Schiphol airport (AMS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dutch-police-have-revealed-that-the-man-survived\">Dutch police have revealed that the man survived.\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aircraft took off from <strong>Johannesburg\u00a0O.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB<\/strong>), South Africa, on January 23, 2022, at 19:40 SAST (17:40 GMT), and flew to <strong>Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO),<\/strong> where it landed six hours later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A stowaway has been found in a\u00a0landing gear compartment of a Cargolux B- 747 after the aircraft landed in\u00a0AMS\" class=\"wp-image-17078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f-750x501.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f-1140x761.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cargolux_boeing_747-400f.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, the <strong>jet took off for AMS,<\/strong> where it spent a further seven hours in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p> <strong>It is unclear if the stowaway boarded the plane\u00a0at Johannesburg or Nairobi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">Dutch\u00a0military police tweeted that the man\u00a0was found in the <strong>nose wheel<\/strong> bay of the plane. \n\nHe was alive and \u201c<strong>doing well under the circumstances\".\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nThe police transported the man to the hospital.\u00a0\u00a0<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is <strong>uncommon<\/strong> for stowaways to survive a flight in the\u00a0landing gear bay. <\/li><li>While relatively easy to access, the bays are <strong>unpressurized<\/strong>.<\/li><li> At the cruising altitude, the temperature falls below <em>-50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit), while the air pressure drops by four-fifths.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"nl\" dir=\"ltr\">Op Schiphol is in het neuswiel van een vrachtvliegtuig uit Z-Afrika een verstekeling aangetroffen. De man maakt het naar omstandigheden goed en is vervoerd naar het ziekenhuis. De Marechaussee doet onderzoek. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KMar_PenB_SPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KMar_PenB_SPL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A7DXGmIbpf\">pic.twitter.com\/A7DXGmIbpf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Koninklijke Marechaussee (@Marechaussee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marechaussee\/status\/1485204463631622151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite often stowaways lose consciousness and fall out when the aircraft extends the landing gear on&nbsp;its landing approach.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;This is definitely very unusual that someone was able to survive the cold at such a height &#8211; <strong>very, very unusual,&#8221; <\/strong>a Dutch military police spokesperson\u00a0told <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/stowaway-survives-flight-from-africa-to-amsterdam-hidden-in-wheel-section-of-plane-12523742\"><\/a>Sky News.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The police did not disclose any further information about the stowaway.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned and Informed with Aviation a2z. 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