Boy flies from Calif. to Hawaii in wheel well

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Experts-stunned-by-local-boy-s-Hawaii-flight-in-5417730.php

A 16-year-old runaway leaves San Jose and makes the five-hour trip at altitudes up to 38,000 feet, where temperatures are -40 to -50. Experts say he would have been unconscious for most of the flight, and he was for an hour afterward on the ground. Then he woke up and hopped out on the tarmac in Maui.

Anything to avoid bag fees, I guess.

 

What talk show gets first dibs on an interview?

I'm leaning towards a morning show with the possibility of Ellen.

 

I would have liked more details on how the kid survived five hours in the wheel well.

Wouldn't he run out of oxygen, even if unconscious? Pretty sure that area is not pressurized.

Paging Doc Talk or some other expert ...

 

Some of the stories have said the body can go into some kind of hibernation because of the elements, and there have been other cases of people surviving with body temperatures that should have been fatal.

 

Wheel wells aren't that big either. He must have been higher up in the plane and maybe it wasn't as cold there and was able to survive.

 

He's one very lucky kid.
A few years ago, around here, the body of a kid dropped out of the wheel well of a plane flying from Charlotte to Boston.

 

What the <i>fuck</i> is that like when the plane is rolling down the runway and taking off?

 

But we probably need not worry that someone who's REALLY sneaky and sinister could get access to a commercial airliner without anyone noticing.

 

I'd like to know, honestly, what would possess anyone -- especially anyone not trying to be "REALLY sneaky and sinister" -- to even think about doing this?

What about falling out from 30,000 feet? What about being blown off/out from winds? What about even being able to hang on? What about the lack of oxygen and pressure? What about depressurization? What about turbulence?

Really, sometimes, people are truly idiots.

 

He should've worn a GoPro.

 

Eddie would go.