AFPEan Air Algérie aircraft (archive)
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 18:31
A stowaway was found in the landing gear of an aircraft at Orly Airport near Paris. The man in his twenties survived the flight, but his life is in danger. The stowaway has been admitted to a local hospital.
The Air Algérie plane came from Oran, in the northwest of Algeria. The flight to Paris takes 2.5 hours.
Refugees often try to hide in wheel arches or cargo cavities of aircraft to get out of a country. Many die because the temperature during the flight drops to at least -50 degrees Celsius. There is also a lack of oxygen at high altitudes.
In April, a stowaway was found dead in the landing gear of a KLM aircraft at Schiphol. At the beginning of last year, a man who had survived the eleven-hour flight was also found at Schiphol in the nose gear of a cargo plane from South Africa.
2023-12-28 17:31:06
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