Kenyan Stowaway: A Kenyan teenage boy has shocked the world after surviving a fourteen hour ordeal to escape Kenya. The boy hid in a plane’s landing gear from Nairobi to Netherlands. According to the Guardian, he was discovered alive after stowing away in the landing gear of a plane which traveled from Kenya to the Netherlands, surviving sub-zero temperatures for several hours.
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“The 16-year-old boy is understood to be from Kenya and thought to have boarded the plane in Nairobi, although it is not clear how he managed to get on board. The cargo aircraft is thought to have departed from Nairobi on Wednesday. It is understood to have stopped in Istanbul and at Stansted airport in the UK before arriving at Maastricht airport on Thursday afternoon,” the Guardian reported.
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The boy was discovered by staff at Maastricht airport shortly after the plane touched down. He was taken to hospital with severe hypothermia, but is now understood to be doing well. “A spokesperson for Maastricht Aachen airport said that the boy was extremely fortunate to be alive.
With commercial flights reaching altitudes of about 38,000ft, chances of survival for stowaways are slim. Stowaways who attempt to hide in the landing gear of planes often freeze to death, or die due to a lack of oxygen,” the report further said.
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The Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 flew at a height of 5800m and the temperature in the landing gear bay would have fallen to -30C. Authorities in Netherlands are now exploring whether to grant asylum to the young boy or deport him back to Kenya. Kenyan Stowaway.
