“This was an extremely dangerous thing for him to do. If
he had continued to cling in there with the aircraft taking off at
over 200 per hour, he might have fallen out and could have been
sucked up by an engine. If he had survived that and was in the
wheel well when the landing gear was retracted, he could have been
crushed by the mechanism. And if not he very likely would have
frozen to death during the 15 1/2 hour flight at 30,000 feet while
wearing no clothes.”
Source: LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles, commenting
on a 31-year old Canadian man who was turned away at the Qantas
ticket counter because he didn't have a valid credit card. Castles
says the man then took off all his clothes, was able to climb the
perimeter fence, negotiate three strands of ba
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