{"id":118979,"date":"2021-11-28T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=118979"},"modified":"2021-11-28T20:31:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T20:31:59","slug":"stowaway-survives-flight-landing-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2021\/11\/stowaway-survives-flight-landing-gear.html","title":{"rendered":"Stowaway survives Guatemala-Miami flight hidden in plane&#8217;s landing gear."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Guatemalan stowaway hidden in the landing gear compartment of an <strong>American Airlines<\/strong> jet survived a flight on Saturday from his home country to Miami, where he was turned over to U.S. immigration officials and taken to a hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/en\/2021\/11\/boeing-accepts-liability-ethiopian-airlines-crash.html\">Boeing accepts liability for Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed the incident in a statement initially cited by Miami-based television station WTVJ, which posted video taken of the man at Miami International Airport shortly after the plane landed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-immigration-stowaway\/guatemalan-stowaway-survives-flight-to-miami-hidden-in-planes-landing-gear-idUSL1N2SJ019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This man arrived to MIA in the landing gear of plane from a Guatemala flight. The flight was about two hours and thirty minutes and witness says he was unharmed\ud83d\ude33\u2708\ufe0f| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ONLYinDADE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ONLYinDADE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qMPP5jjDvb\">pic.twitter.com\/qMPP5jjDvb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ONLY in DADE (@ONLYinDADE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ONLYinDADE\/status\/1464651364588564482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The video, attributed to the social media page \u201cOnly in Dade\u201d on Instagram, showed the stowaway appearing dazed but otherwise unharmed, sitting on the tarmac beside the plane &#8211; dressed in blue jeans, a T-shirt, jacket and boots &#8211; as ground crew personnel tended to him and asked if he wanted some water, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-immigration-stowaway\/guatemalan-stowaway-survives-flight-to-miami-hidden-in-planes-landing-gear-idUSL1N2SJ019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cU.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Miami International Airport apprehended a 26-year-old man who attempted to evade detection in the landing gear compartment of an aircraft arriving from Guatemala Saturday morning,\u201d the CBP statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe individual was evaluated by emergency medical services and taken to a hospital for medical assessment,\u201d the agency added. \u201cThis incident remains under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/en\/2021\/11\/discover-flight-mh370-into-a-holding-pattern.html\">They discover that flight MH370 went into a holding pattern for 22 minutes.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American Airlines issued a statement saying its Flight 1182 from Guatemala City to Miami arrived shortly after 10 a.m. local time and \u201cwas met by law enforcement due to a security issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline gave no further details, except to say it was assisting in the investigation. The Guatemala-to-Miami trip is a flight of just over 2 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the FAA, 129 people have attempted to stow away in the wheel wells or other areas of commercial aircraft worldwide since 1947. 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