On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, John Galban wrote:

"John Gaquin" wrote in message ...
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A man was found dead Tuesday night in the wheel well of a
British Airways plane at new York's John F. Kennedy International Airport,
authorities said.

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These guys are nuts!. 2 or 3 weeks ago there was a Discovery or
TLC program that highlighted the case of a Cuban defector that hid in
a passenger jet wheelwell. He flew from Cuba to Canada and survived.
The cruise portion of the flight was at 30K ft. or better. The point
of the show was to figure out how the man survived the hours at 30K
ft. They couldn't do it.

I dimly recall something about there being heaters & an oxygen feed into
the wheelwell itself, to keep the hydraulics & such from freezing up at
altitude, and this stowaway curled himself around the heater and got a
trickle of air from the feed.

Google News might be able to tell you more...

Brian