Stowaway Found Alive But In Critical Condition In Paris

In a plane from western Algerian town of Oran to Paris, a stowaway was found in critical condition. He was found in the undercarriage bay of an Air Algeria plane at Paris Orly airport. The person was found on Thursday in a life-threatening condition and was taken for treatment to the nearby hospital. Flight from Oran to Orly Airport of Paris takes two-and-a-half hour. While the identity of the man is not revealed yet, Fox News said the man can be in his 20s and he was found by the crews during their technical checks.

Stowaways can face the temperatures between minus 50 Celsius (minus 58 Fahrenheit) and minus 60 Celsius (minus 76 Fahrenheit) when they hide in the unpressurized wheel-house and cargo holds of a plane, added with lack of oxygen, as the commercial flights fly at the altitude of 30,000 to 40,000 feet.

The situations can even cause death to the stowaways. In 2019, body of a suspected stowaway fell from hundred meters from a plane that was flying over southwest of London and landed in a man’s garden while he was having a sunbath and missed him with inches.

Another reported stowaway death was on a British Airways in 2015, when the flight was going from Johannesburg to Heathrow, when the body landed on a shop in Richmond, situated in southwest of London. There was also report of a second stowaway from the flight and was found somehow alive during the 8000 miles journey from the undercarriage of the plane, said CNN.