Thirteen-year-old boy sneaks into the airplane wheel compartment...I was going to take another flight
Sep 23, 2025
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According to Indian media such as India Express, Kam Air flight RQ4401, which departed Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, arrived at Delhi Airport at 10:20 a.m. on the 21st (local time).
After the plane landed, a ground employee who found a boy walking in a restricted area near the runway reported the incident to authorities.
The boy said he hid in a landing gear compartment while following passengers on board at Kabul airport.
He also stated that he had originally intended to head to Iran but was on the wrong flight.
Police will return the boy back to Afghanistan after completing the investigation. The official explained that there will be no legal punishment because he is a minor.
Aviation experts warned that such behavior was extremely dangerous.
"It is possible that the wheel compartment door closed after takeoff, leaving the inner space in a pressure-held state," one expert said. "The boy may have survived by hanging on to the inner structure." he estimated.
In general, it is almost impossible to survive at an altitude of 30,000 feet due to lack of oxygen and temperatures of minus 40 to 60 degrees Celsius, he said, adding that the boy's survival is close to a miracle.
Medical experts explained that `at an altitude of 10,000 feet or higher, oxygen is rapidly insufficient, which can lead to loss of consciousness within minutes and death from hypothermia.'
It is said that the survival rate of people smuggled into the country in wheel compartments worldwide is only 1 in 5. Most die from hypoxia, frostbite, mechanical crush, etc.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
