Fri, Nov 05, 2004
Aero-News: Quote of the Day
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Aero-News Quote of the Day
“This was an extremely
dangerous thing for him to do. If he had continued to cling in
there with the aircraft taking off at over 200 per hour, he might
have fallen out and could have been sucked up by an engine. If he
had survived that and was in the wheel well when the landing gear
was retracted, he could have been crushed by the mechanism. And if
not he very likely would have frozen to death during the 15 1/2
hour flight at 30,000 feet while wearing no
clothes.”
Source: LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles,
commenting on a 31-year old Canadian man who was turned away at the
Qantas ticket counter because he didn't have a valid credit card.
Castles says the man then took off all his clothes, was able to
climb the perimeter fence, negotiate three strands of barbed wire
at the top, then run floppity-flop right up to an aircraft and
climb inside the wheel well of a departing Qantas 747. He was
eventually coaxed out and arrested, leaving behind questions about
how a naked man could get onto the field in the first place.
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