Stowaway on SQ 119
Heard there was a stowaway on an SQ flight recently.
Flight was doing KUL - SIN. Anyone got more news on it. :bored: |
Here you go..
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 |
Catch Me If You Can
Originally Posted by Channel NewsAsia
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. |
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