I find it hard to understand the desperation that drives these poor people to certain deaths, but what I find more worrying is the fact they can access the inner workings of an aircraft.
I know from experience that the security at certain African airports is open to the highest bidder if it exists at all, and as a lot of African people are of religions that tend to be slightly fanatical, and with the current state of global politics. Then the security of the aircraft should be of more interest than the cause of demise of some poor desperate person.
I will probably be condemed as a racist bigot, but I am only saying what a LOT of people must think
