A 16-year-old boy survived a harrowing trip halfway across the Pacific Ocean Sunday after climbing into the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines jet flying from San Jose to Maui, emerging unharmed despite freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen on a flight that reached an altitude of 38,000 feet, an FBI official said.
“How he survived I don’t know,” said Tom Simon, an FBI spokesman based in Honolulu. “It’s a miracle.”
Security footage from San Jose’s Mineta International Airport verified that the teen, from Santa Clara, Calif., hopped a fence and made his way to Hawaiian Airlines Flight 45, where he manged to climb up the wheel well and stow away without being detected.
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