Faisal, a 13-year-old Afghan boy made a desperate and dangerous journey from Kabul to Delhi quite by accident, by stowing away in the landing gear compartment of a KAM Air passenger plane RQ4401, surviving a 94-minute flight which landed on Sunday at 11:10 (05:40GMT). He was immediately deported back to Afghanistan with the plane declare safe after thorough checks. Faisal from Kunduz city, was found wondering near the aircraft shortly after its arrival. During interrogation, Faisal admitted that he had sneaked into Kabul airport undetected and managed to climb into the rear central landing gear compartment of the plane. “I did this out of curiosity” he said after surviving freezing temperatures and low oxygen at 30, 000feet.

He was only carrying a red coloured speaker and in fact wanted to travel to Iran and did not know that the flight he entered was bound for Delhi not Tehran.

According to expert stowaways who survive such flights are often unconscious during descent, putting them at risk of falling to their deaths when the landing gear is lowered. In 2022, a 22-year-old Kenyan man was found alive in th3 wheel well of a cargo plane in Amsterdam.