{"id":8616,"date":"2014-04-22T15:32:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/?p=8616"},"modified":"2014-04-22T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:32:54","slug":"dont-try-this-home-flying-the-unfriendly-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/auto-insurance\/dont-try-this-home-flying-the-unfriendly-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Try This Home \u2013 Flying the Unfriendly Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a question puzzling medical experts — how did a 16-year-old boy survive a five-hour flight from San Jose, California, to Maui, Hawaii, in below freezing cold weather at oxygen-depleted heights without dying or falling out of the wheel well of a huge jumbo jet? Wonder if he had flight insurance? It\u2019s a good bet if he had a driver\u2019s license, odds are he wouldn\u2019t bother with car insurance.<\/p>\n

After the ground crew at Kahului Airport noticed the dazed and confused teen wandering on the tarmac, the boy was placed in the custody of child welfare services workers in Hawaii \u2013 but his breach of airport security has put airports throughout the country on alert.<\/p>\n

Against all odds<\/strong>
\nAuthorities stated it was a miracle the teenage stowaway survived his trip crammed in the wheel well \u2013 here\u2019s what he had to deal with:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Very low oxygen content
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jet’s cruising altitude of 38,000 feet, dropping the temperature to 50 degrees below zero or lower.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Avoid being crushed as the wheels retracted
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Maintain his position in the wheel well when the bay doors opened twice in the air.<\/p>\n

According to Federal Aviation Administration<\/a> records, since 1947, only 25 of the 105 people who have attempted to stow away in the wheel wells of planes, have survived the ordeal.\u00a0 The temperature extremes and limited oxygen put survival time at just minutes.<\/p>\n

Although being young likely worked in his favor, his stunt could leave him with serious medical problems:
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Permanent brain damage
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Neurological issues
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Memory problems
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Lower IQ
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Frostbite
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Kidney injury (particles of muscle enter a frozen body\u2019s blood stream and damage the kidneys)<\/p>\n

Security measures didn\u2019t do the job<\/strong>
\nSo how was a 16 year-old kid able to get around security efforts? What points did the security measures fail?
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Climbed over a 6- to 8-foot fence with three strands of barbed wire.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Closed circuit security camera feed not being monitoring when the boy climbed into the landing gear.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ground personnel saw nothing unusual.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Pilot who completed pre-flight inspection didn\u2019t see the boy.<\/p>\n

Bottom line? While this is an epic story of survival, it has shaken confidence and peace of mind in our airport security efforts. Have peace of mind over what you can protect, with good car insurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Do you think airport security can be improved? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a question puzzling medical experts — how did a 16-year-old boy survive a five-hour flight from San Jose, California, to Maui, Hawaii, in below freezing cold weather at oxygen-depleted heights without dying or falling out of the wheel well of a huge jumbo jet? Wonder if he had flight insurance? It\u2019s a good bet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[19],"importance":[],"type-content":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"importance","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/importance?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"type-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-content?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}