A Chinese man died while trying to reach the United States in the wheel well of a Boeing 747. He more than likely fell victim to asphyxiation or hypothermia during the 11-hour flight.
We are starting to hear about this more and more these days. These people are so desperate to come to the United States, they are willing to risk their own lives for it. Makes you wonder how bad their lives are.
This poor man had on several layer of clothes, and two jackets. The plane landed in San Fransico, and while doing regular plane inspections, they found the man's body.
Most stowaways do not make it to where they are wanting to go. They either are crushed, fall out of the plane, or die of asphyxiation and hypothermia.
There is little U.S. regulators can do to prevent the practice on international flights, the security issue is with the origin airport," FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
And get this, if they do make it (which is slim) they are more than likely allowed to stay.
Victor Alvarez Molina got refugee status in Canada after enduring a four-hour flight from Cuba. He told reporters he clung to a picture of his daughter and hot air pipes in the wheel well to survive a temperature that aviation experts calculated would have been minus 40 Fahrenheit or colder.
I wonder if they do background checks on these people?
Man's Body Found in Plane Wheel Well
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