Frozen boy survives flight on plane wing

A teenage boy has somehow survived a two-hour flight clinging to the wing of a Boeing 737.

The 15-year-old, named Andrei, clambered into a wing's wheel well after running away from his Siberian home.

He was only discovered when the plane landed in Moscow - and is now being treated in hospital for severe frostbite.

Investigators are amazed that Andrei survived the journey in temperatures as low as minus-50 degrees Celsius - and speeds of up to 900kmh.

At the end of the 1,300km journey, rescuers at Vnukova airport were initially unable to take off his coat and shoes because his arms and legs were so badly frozen.

It was suggested that he ran away from home after an argument with his parents, first to see his grandmother in a neighbouring village.

He then hitched a 220km lift to Perm, where he was let out at the airport and somehow got onto the plane wing.

Moscow's air and water transport control department confirmed radio reports about the boy's bizarre journey were true.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.ht ... to=newsnow

Think this was addressed on anet, the account is false and I believe he was in the landing gear well or something. A human couldn't survive very long on the wing of a 737. He probably wouldn't even survive the take off.

I think it had to be the nose gear well... There is really no space for anyone to hide in a 737's main gear well (not that I tried)... http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2 ... 5/013.html

Agreed. Welcome to the site, Andy!