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Old 04-22-2014, 09:26 PM
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What I can't imagine is a (likely) uneducated person in the heat of trying to hide finding the exact spot to hide so that when the gear swings up he isn't crushed. Most transport aircraft gear retract quickly and I would think you would have to have your spot all picked out and you would have to be in place before retraction. Again, on the ones I have seen you would have only several seconds to make any adjustments. And all the while this screaming gear is folding and contorting itself into the well, with wind rushing around and the ground dropping away....

Guess that is why most of the time it doesn't work.
This discussion has me thinking. I'm wondering if this could have been a contrived stunt. Could this have been planned? Did this kid already know where the cubby hole was?
Might this be the new millennium's version of going over Niagara Falls in a barrel?

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Old 04-24-2014, 08:20 PM
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But some people have survived. Since 1947, 105 people are known to have attempted to fly inside wheel wells on 94 flights worldwide, the Federal Aviation Administration's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute says. Of those, 25 made it through, including a 9-year-old child -- a survival rate of 24%


According to Homeland Security they have video from the origination of him walking around on the apron. The suggestion is that he was lying against the inboard ledge of the port main UC well, adjacent to the inboard door. The gap is minimal, but then he would only have to hold on until the door closed. If he was locked around plumbing or wiring on the bulkhead, and if the descent was long and slow, then the possibility of his achieving some kind of consciousness before the doors opened is possible. Also I think that the 767 inboard door cycles to retract and deploy the undercarriage but usually remains closed until the A/C hydraulic pressure drops. Any way that you spin it still pretty amazing.
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