Teen stowaway’s plane flight survival: ‘It’s a miracle’

A 16-year-old boy endured freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines plane — and survived. The boy, who hopped an airport fence in San Jose, California and climbed undetected into the aircraft’s wheel well, appears to have been unconscious “for pretty much the entire flight,” according to FBI officials. “How he survived, I don’t know. It’s a miracle,” an FBI official said. The plane landed five hours later at Maui’s Kahului Airport. The boy, who did not regain consciousness for another hour, woke up and hopped down onto the tarmac. It is extremely rare to survive a flight in a plane’s wheel well. Many who try end up freezing to death or dying from a lack of oxygen.

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