Heard there was a stowaway on an SQ flight recently.
Flight was doing KUL - SIN.
Anyone got more news on it.
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SIA300
13th Oct 2007, 15:15
Singapore- A Palestinian stowaway fell out of the nose
wheel of a Singapore Airlines (SIA) aircraft that landed at Changi
Airport on a flight from Kuala Lumpur, police said on Saturday.
Osama:rolleyes:RM Shublaq, 27, hid in the nose wheel well on Flight SQ 119
Thursday night.
Ground crew in Singapore waiting to serve the twin-engine Boeing
777-200 said he fell about 2.4 metres from the wheel well to the
ground. He was immediately arrested by police
Osama was charged in a Singapore court on Friday with entering
Singapore without a valid pass or permit. If convicted, he could be
jailed for up to six months, caned three strokes or more, or fined up
to 6,000 Singapore dollars (4,026 US dollars).
SIA said the carrier would not comment on a matter under police
investigation.
Pilots and aviation industry personnel told The Straits times they
were amazed that the stowaway survived .
"He could have been crushed by the retracting nose wheel,
depending on where and how he was positioned," a pilot was quoted as
saying.
Malaysian authorities were baffled as to how the man could have
breached ground security at Kuala Lumpur International Airport and
climbed into the cubby hole unnoticed.
"You've got to be a superhero to try such a thing," Azharuddin
Rahman, a director at Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation, told
the newspaper.
It was believed to be the first case involving a stowaway in a
wheel at Changi.
A 15-year-old Russian boy survived a two-hour flight in Russia
three weeks ago by hiding in the wheel well of a Boeing 737 jet.
Pilots told the newspaper that the short flight time of about 35
minutes was probably what saved the stowaway. The air in the wheel
well is not pressurized or heated, they said. The remainder of the
55-minute journey is ground time.
The cruising altitude for such flights is around 23,000 feet with
the aircraft spending six minutes at that level while the temperature
outside is minus 15 degrees Celsius.
The stowaway was said to have been wearing a coat and long pants
when he was arrested
thornycactus
13th Oct 2007, 15:25
Malaysian authorities are puzzled how he breached ground security at KLIA and climbed into the plane’s wheel well without being spotted.
Azharuddin A. Rahman, a director at the Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia, told a local newspaper: "You’ve got to be a superhero to try such a thing!"
Azmi Murad, senior manager of operations of Malaysia Airports Holdings, which runs KLIA, said the airport would cooperate with Singapore authorities in investigations.
Airline industry sources believe this is the first case of a stowaway in a wheel well at Changi Airport, according to the newspaper.
Changi Airport is known for its strict security measures, including armed military and police on patrol.
An experienced pilot was quoted saying: "He could have been crushed by the retraction nose wheel, depending on where and how he was positioned."
It is believed the short journey time probably saved the stowaway because the Kuala Lumpur—Singapore flight took only about 35 minutes.
This Palestini really reminds me of a Hollywood movie {Catch Me If You Can} , starred by Leonardo. :ok: