DieselDragRacer
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A 20-year-old Romanian who stowed away in the wheel well of a jet in Vienna survived a 90-minute flight to London because the plane had to fly low due to bad weather, the Associated Press reports.
The unidentified man, who said he was looking for work, told British authorities that he crawled under a fence near a construction site at Vienna's airport and jumped in the first plane he could.
That turned out to be the jet of a high-ranking sheik from the Untied Arab Emirates.
Austria's daily Kurier newspaper reported, without citing a source, that the man may have survived because the aircraft flew "well below 10,000 meters" due to a bad weather front.
An Austrian police official says the man fell out of the gear's compartment after the plane landed at Heathrow.
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...-vienna-to-london-flight-in-jets-wheel-well/1
The unidentified man, who said he was looking for work, told British authorities that he crawled under a fence near a construction site at Vienna's airport and jumped in the first plane he could.
That turned out to be the jet of a high-ranking sheik from the Untied Arab Emirates.
Austria's daily Kurier newspaper reported, without citing a source, that the man may have survived because the aircraft flew "well below 10,000 meters" due to a bad weather front.
An Austrian police official says the man fell out of the gear's compartment after the plane landed at Heathrow.
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...-vienna-to-london-flight-in-jets-wheel-well/1
