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Fri, Nov 05, 2004

Naked Man Climbs Aboard Qantas Flight At LAX

Canadian Stowaway Angered Over Inability To Buy Ticket

Neil Melly was determined to fly to Australia. So when his credit card ended up shooting blanks at the ticket counter, the 31-year old Canadian man was not to be deterred. The very next day, he ran naked onto the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport, climbed into the wheel well of a taxiing Qantas 747 and hunkered down for a long, long flight.

“This was an extremely dangerous thing for him to do,” said LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles Wednesday. “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 If he had survived that and was in the wheel well when the landing gear was retracted, he could have been crushed by the mechanism.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.”

Details, details.

When the jumbo jet's flight crew realized they had a stowaway, they simply stopped taxiing. Authorities arrived and talked the naked man out of the wheel well. He now faces a variety of charges including trespassing.

Questions remain, however, as to how the quite undressed Canadian 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 machinery.

A check with the Royal Mounted Canadian Police showed that Melly had been reported as a missing person. The RCMP also said Melly suffers from bi-polar disease.

FMI: www.lawa.org/lax/laxframe.html

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