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A TEENAGER who stowed away in the wheel well of a plane manage to survive a trip halfway across the Pacific Ocean at 38,000 feet - despite freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen.

The boy was unharmed after his ordeal [AP]

The 16-year-old boy survived -62C temperatures and was discovered wandering around airport grounds after a five-hour flight from California touched down in Maui, Hawaii.
CCTV footage from Mineta San Jose International Airport revealed that the boy had scaled a fence before concealing him self aboard Hawaiian Airlines Flight 45 on Sunday morning following an argument with his family.
Speaking from Honolulu, FBI spokesman Tom Simon said the boy had no identification and was being questioned.
He said: "The kid's lucky to be alive
"He was unconscious for the lion's share of the flight.
"He doesn't even remember it - it's amazing he survived that."

 

The start and end of the journey [Express]

Hawaiian Airlines spokeswoman Alison Croyle said airline personnel noticed the boy on the ramp after the flight arrived and immediately notified airport security.
She said: "Our primary concern now is for the well-being of the boy, who is exceptionally lucky to have survived."
The boy was medically screened and found to be unharmed.
He will not be charged and was referred to child protective services.
Dr. Richard Besser, chief health and medical editor for the ABC News network, said to survive such conditions, the body has to fall into a hibernation-like state, with the heart only beating a couple of times a minute.
'It's near impossible, almost miraculous, and maybe there's more to the story," he said.

In August, another teenage boy in Nigeria survived a 35-minute trip in the wheel well of a domestic flight after stowing away.
Others stowing away in wheel wells have died, including a 16-year-old killed on a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Boston in 2010 and a man who fell onto a suburban London street from a flight from Angola in 2012.