A 16-year-old stowaway miraculously survived a 5 hour flight in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii ..According to Maui news, he was discovered on the tarmac at the Maui airport without an Id or belongings, just a comb.He said he ran away after an argument with his parents
FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu said the boy was very lucky to be alive and was unconscious for about one hour after landing but eventually hopped down from the wheel and started wandering around when he was found. Medical experts said he probably survived because he fell into a hibernation like state with his heart beating only a couple of times...
'The odds of a person surviving that long of a flight at that altitude are very remote, actually. I mean, you are talking about altitudes that are well above the altitude of Mt. Everest. And temperatures that can reach 40 degrees below zero,' Forman said. A lot of people would only have useful consciousness for a minute or two at that altitude. For somebody to survive multiple hours with that lack of oxygen and that cold is just miraculous. I've never heard of anything like that before"
Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News' chief health and medical editor said
'It's near impossible, almost miraculous, and maybe there's more to the story,
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