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Posted on 09/25/2007 4:18:21 PM PDT by George from New England
MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.
After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukova Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto the tarmac. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes, the radio station said.
The airport did not confirm the report. "We have no information on this," the Vnukovo press service told RIA Novosti.
However, Moscow's air and water transport control department said the radio's claim was true. A department spokesman said the incident occurred on Friday, and that the boy's parents were immediately informed, and flew to the capital the same day.
Doctors said it was nothing short of a miracle that Andrei survived the flight, with temperatures hitting minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit), the radio station said. The Boeing-737 has a cruising speed of 900 kmh (560 mph).
The boy reportedly made the journey after a commonplace domestic dispute. Angry with his father, who reportedly has a drinking problem, and with his mother for siding with her husband in family rows, Andrei ran away to the neighboring village, where his grandmother lives. On reaching the village, he decided to go on, and hitched a 220-km (137-mile) ride to the regional center, Perm, where he was dropped off at the airport.
It remains unclear how Andrei was able to climb on a plane wing un-noticed, and the Perm Airport security service is being asked some serious questions, the radio station said.
Andrei is now being treated in a Moscow hospital, Radio Mayak said.
This sounds like BS. :)
I thought the Weekly World News was gone!
Maybe it's the translation.
Anybody believes that, stand on your head.
Does the link look like B.S.
“after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.”
Riiiight. And Hillary Clinton is an evangelical Christian.
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Darwinski Award contender.
ROFL - not possible...try standing up or doing anything in a 560 mph wind....this kid would have been a kite
So how did he manage to stay on the wing and not get blown off?
No. But the story does. :)
I agree...
I saw it all! Batboy, Bigfoot and Elvis were there with him!!!
no-way-in-hell
For two hours.
Gotta throw the BS flag on this one, up there with I Had Bigfoot's Baby.
Moonbat, propaganda, propaganda, demi-moonbat, questionable. So, umm, yeah, actually, the link looks like B.S. :) What I’d like to know is not how someone survives the air temp, but really, how does someone breathe in 400-500 knot winds for even ten minutes? Now, if you take it from being on the wing, to being /in/ the wing, that sounds far more likely.
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