13-Year-Old Stowaway Who Hid In Plane’s Landing Gear ‘Out Of Curiosity’ Miraculously Survives Flight

Body discovered during maintenance.

First time a stowaway has been discovered in Hawaii. Body discovered in the wheel well on Christmas Eve.

Survived the two and half hour flight but was found in a critical condition.

The body was discovered in Amsterdam from a flight coming in from Istanbul, but most likely originated in Mauritania or Banjul where the plane had been previously.

The individual was found dead upon arrival at Schiphol. How he got into the aircraft is currently unknown.

Two stowaways were found dead in the wheelbay of a Avianca A320. Both were pronounced dead on arrival in Bogota.

The first recorded stowaway involving TUI. Body discovered during routine maintenance at Gatwick airport.

Body discovered during maintenance at Frankfurt airport. All Lufthansa’s flight to Iran has been cancelled.

A middle-aged man was discovered inside the aircraft as it was parked at a remote stand.

They were discovered in the hold of the aircraft. Authorities were alerted by another brother, they originally wanted to go to Barcelona only a short flight away.

A short video clip was spread online of him as he was discovered in the landing wheel bay.

The flight originated in Johannesburg, but he most most likely got onboard in Nairobi. He has requested asylum in Netherlands.

A Guatemalan man survived the 2½-hour flight in the wheelbay of a 737, which does not have landing gear doors.

Seen falling from the landing gear bays after take-off. Zaki Anwari was a member of Afghanistan’s national youth soccer team.

Found on the tracks between Mortlake and North Sheen stations. Still not sure where he was flying in from but its believed to be Lagos. "While CCTV from Lagos airport had been overwritten, an examination of the aircraft found boot marks in the wheel well."

Child, aged about 10 found dead on arrival in Paris.

Body discovered during a stopover at Casablanca airport.

A suspected stowaway who is believed to have fallen from the landing gear. Discovered in a garden in Clapham.

Survived. Homeless man found on the tarmac of the Félix Éboué Airport.[135] The flight made a refuelling stop at Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport in Martinique between Pointe-à-Pitre and Cayenne.

The boys fell from the landing gear during take-off.

No information available.

Survived, was returned to Dominican Republic.

Body discovered at the O. R. Tambo International Airport.

Body discovered in the rear wheel well during regular check at King Abdulaziz International Airport.

Died, body discovered during regular maintenance at Brussels Airport

The boy is reported to have said he was "very comfortable" in the hold. However, he said he had eaten nothing during the nearly nine-hour flight. Gulf News said the cargo hold was pressurised.

Body discovered during refuelling at Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe.

Body discovered during maintenance operations on the Boeing 777 at Orly Airport.

Body discovered upon arrival at Schiphol Airport in the wheelbay of a cargo aircraft.

Carlito fell and died during approach, body recovered on a roof in Richmond. Justin survived.

Died (the body was presumed to be in the wheel well from March 11, 2015 when the aircraft had its last flight from New York)

He said he made the trip to try and reunite with his mother, who his father had falsely claimed was dead.

Body parts fell at an intersection in Mushrefa, Jeddah

Thought the plane was going to America. Daniel cited parental maltreatment.

Fell during landing in Niamey

Froze, body found upon arrival to Heathrow Airport

His body was only discovered after 4 days. It's unclear exact where he came but autopsy showed that he froze to death

It took authorities 6 months to identify his body. He was initially buried in Twickenham but was eventually exhumed was returned to his family in Mozambique.

Fell shortly after takeoff

Fell on approach to Boston. According to the FAA, at the time of the incident Tisdale was the first domestic wheel-well stowaway in almost 40 years.

Planned to reach Irkutsk

Died in the nose wheel well

Fell during takeoff

Died on approach to Domodedovo International Airport, body found 12 km from the airport

Arrested upon arrival in Singapore and deported

Suffered severe frostbite

Body was found in the wheelbay of the aircraft after it had landed.

Died in the front wheel well, presumably after hitching the aircraft in his hometown Cape Town on January 22, body discovered in Los Angeles

Frozen and crushed

Crushed on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport

Liang survived, Su died (fell shortly after takeoff)

Body found upon arrival to John F. Kennedy International Airport

Fell near Paris

Both died (fell on approach to Pudong International Airport)

He was an aircraft maintenance employee at the airport in Punta Cana.

He acted spontaneously after his wife phoned him at work warning of trouble. Survived and received refugee status in Canada

"The boys must have been desperate to leave for whatever reason." A ground engineer found the frozen bodies in a wheel compartment of the DC-10 after he saw an arm dangling on to the tarmac.

Both died (planned hiding on a flight to Miami)

Fell from 1,500 ft on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport

Traveled to London due to job hardships in Pakistan and Bahrain

Survived at 38,000 ft. Discovered during a refueling stopover in Los Angeles. He later told the main motive behind his travel to France was to "shake hands" with Zinedine Zidane.

Froze to death. The boys were carrying plastic bags with birth certificates, school report cards, family photographs and a letter.

The frozen body of a man wanted on kidnapping charges in Antigua was found yesterday in the wheel well of a jetliner in Trinidad, police said.

Survived at 33,000 ft, traveled seeking work, but was returned to Honduras

Survived, but hospitalised in critical condition. The man told investigators he was unemployed in China and wanted to get a job in Japan, Kyodo News reported.

Body discovered upon arrival to Gatwick Airport on February 8

Crushed in nosewheel well

Pardeep survived in the nose wheel well at 35,000 ft, Vijay died. Pardeep was eventually refused asylum in the UK

One survived, the other one about 12 years old died

Survived at 35,000 ft, but suffered frostbite. He went to have an illustrius career as a imposter and conman, so much so that Betancourt was portrayed in the third season of the popular British series Con Men Case Files.

Both survived 5 hour flight

Survived at 39,000 ft

Fell to his death

Froze to death

Fell at Abidjan when landing gear lowered

Fell from 200 ft on takeoff, accidentally captured by amateur photographer John Gilpin and published in Life magazine.

One survived, second fell to death

Both fled Cuba as they were disillutioned with the country. Ramirez survived in the wheel bay. Blanco died.

Survived at 34,000 ft

Froze to death

Police said he appeared to have sneaked into Orly Airport with the idea of hitching a free ride home. But he picked the wrong aircraft, they said.

Police said he appeared to have sneaked into Orly Airport with the idea of hitching a free ride home but he picked the wrong aircraft.

Daniel wanted to reach America but he only made it to Bermuda where the was discovered by the crew “clinging to the wheel axle like a monkey.” He was only able to emigrate legally to the USA 10 years after the illegal trip, to work in a factory. In America that he continues to live in Fall River, Massachusetts, more than half a century after his epic odyssey.

A man with wanderlust made the journey, but was arrested on arrival and held for 60 days before being deported back to Fiji.

A 30 year old Portuguese stowaway, Francisco de Carvalho, who flew across the south Atlantic from Lisbon to Brazil last August clinging to the wheel base of a Dutch airliner, is now in a Lisbon jail, according to the London office of the airline. During his stay in Natal, Brazil, Carvalho was given an enthusiastic reception and for a few days entertained guests at a leading hotel by singing Portuguese songs.

He was adopted by a local family and was naturalised in Australia in 1958, where he married and went on to raise a family.