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Teen Survives Flight in Wheel Well

From San Jose to Maui.

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After a fight with his parents, a 16-year-old boy went to Mineta San Jose International Airport and hid in the wheel well of Hawaiian Airlines Flight 45, surviving the cold temperatures and lack of oxygen at 38,000 feet to make it to Maui. The boy was reportedly unconscious for most of the 5 1/2-hour flight. The FBI, along with the Transportation Security Administration, is investigating how the teen made it past security and onto the tarmac. It's not only baffling that he made it onto the plane, but that he lived. "It's amazing he survived that,” an FBI spokesman said.

Read it at Associated Press

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