According to the Global Times comprehensive "Indian Times" and other Indian media reports, a 13-year-old boy from Afghanistan on 21 was hidden in the aircraft's take-off cabin, was found after flying to India's New Delhi airport, then deported back to the country.

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According to reports, the boy is from Kunduz city in northern Afghanistan and is only 13 years old.

In the early morning of September 21st, local time, he sneaked into Kabul Airport, followed a group of passengers, and hid in the central landing gear compartment (that is, the internal compartment that accommodates the landing gear) at the rear of Kam Airlines Flight RQ-4401. He only carried a red loudspeaker.

The plane took off from Kabul and, after a flight of about two hours in the high oxygen and cold atmosphere, the boy arrived at Delhi¡¯s Indira Gandhi International Airport around 11 a.m.

When the boy was found, he was wandering near the plane.

It is reported that he said that he entered the landing gear cabin of the aircraft out of "curiosity" and was not aware of the danger. Sources said he had intended to travel to Iran but boarded a flight to India by mistake.

The plane was declared safe after a number of inspections. Indian officials said the boy had returned to Kabul on the same passenger plane's return flight RQ-4402 that day.

According to public information, many stowaways will hide in the landing gear compartment of the aircraft, which is extremely dangerous. Because space is limited, stowaways are often crushed when the landing gear is retracted; In many aircraft, the landing gear is stowed in even less space than the trunk of a car.

Commercial aircraft typically cruise at an altitude of 30,000 to 40,000 feet, where the temperature drops to about 50 degrees Celsius, making it difficult for passengers to survive without heating or pressure in the landing cabin.

In addition, as the aircraft rises, the oxygen content becomes extremely low, and smugglers often find it difficult to stay awake, and they face the risk of falling to death when the aircraft falls and the take-off shelf is put down.

Data from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for 2019 showed that the mortality rate of smuggling hidden in the take-off cabin was approximately 77 per cent. Between 1947 and 2021, a total of 132 people attempted to take the take-off cabin of a commercial aircraft.

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(Source: Jimu News)