Dutch authorities at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam have report finding a stowaway in the front wheel plane section of a aeroplane travel from South Africa who improbably survived the 11 - hour journeying in parlous condition . The airplane was traveling from Johannesburg and made one stop in Nairobi , Kenya , where it ’s thought he entered the plane , before continue to the Netherlands . The 22 - year - old man is favorable to be alive .
While he ’s not the first person to have survive such a perilous journeyin the wheel compartment , the peril is incredibly dangerous . Without the insulation and pressurization of cabin within commercial aircraft , consistence are exposed to temperature of -51 ° C ( -60 ° F ) .
If that were n’t enough , atmospheric pressing at that altitude is between one - third and one - stern of what it is experienced at sea level . This could easily lead to hypoxia , low oxygen intake . There are sorry taradiddle of this kind of risk not panning out . Thefrozen bodyof a victim of such a deadly combination fell into a garden in London in 2019 as a plane was coming in to land at Heathrow Airport .
The stowaway , who has applied for refuge , was treated at the panorama by the Dutch moulding patrol . They successfully raised his body temperatureto safer levels on siteand confirmed he was conscious and they were able to expect him a few questions . He was then channel to a hospital . The Dutch authorization are now conducting an investigating on where the man came from exactly and if this is a case of migratory smuggling .
statistic from theUS Federal Aviation Agencyshow 126 people have stowed away on an airplane since 1947 , and 77 pct die trying . The actual statistic are look to be much higher .
Political magniloquence on the plight of refugee has been chiefly and more and more anti - in-migration over the preceding few decades , especially in the West . With the produce mood crisis , increasing frequency ofnatural disasters , warfare , andpolitical agitation , the number of immigrants and refugees is not going to decrease . Just the opposite .
airmanship reporterRichard Schuurmancalled the stowaway ’s selection here a " miracle " .
Theaward - winning British poet Warsan Shirewrote , on the experience of Somali immigrants come to Europe , that “ no one leaves home unless plate is the mouth of a shark ” ; sober Holy Scripture to explain the desperation someone might feel to make up one’s mind to embark on such a journey .
