Interesting article.Sure doesn't sound like it would be fun. Also doesn't sound like many are successful although you kind of wonder how many have done it successfully AND undetected.
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Police are investigating whether a man found dead on a west London street was a stowaway who fell from a plane. Just how often does this happen?
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Dangerous journey
Since records began in 1947, 96 wheel well stowaways are thought to have attempted to board 85 flights
73 of those stowaways died and 23 survived
Two fatal cases in 2012 to date
First on August flight from Cape Town to Heathrow
And a September flight thought to have been from an African airport to Heathrow - suspected stowaway's body found in Mortlake, south-west London
Youngest recorded survivor aged nine
One person is known to have survived cruising altitude of 39,000ft
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