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Frozen boy survives flight on plane wing

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A teenage boy has somehow survived a two-hour flight clinging to the wing of a Boeing 737.

The 15-year-old, named Andrei, clambered into a wing's wheel well after running away from his Siberian home.

He was only discovered when the plane landed in Moscow - and is now being treated in hospital for severe frostbite.

Investigators are amazed that Andrei survived the journey in temperatures as low as minus-50 degrees Celsius - and speeds of up to 900kmh.

At the end of the 1,300km journey, rescuers at Vnukova airport were initially unable to take off his coat and shoes because his arms and legs were so badly frozen.

It was suggested that he ran away from home after an argument with his parents, first to see his grandmother in a neighbouring village.

He then hitched a 220km lift to Perm, where he was let out at the airport and somehow got onto the plane wing.

Moscow's air and water transport control department confirmed radio reports about the boy's bizarre journey were true.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.ht ... to=newsnow
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I've heard of people strapping themselves to the landing gears, but how is wing possible?? :shock:

Nobody was able to see a young boy flapping beneath the wing??
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THEICEMAN wrote:I've heard of people strapping themselves to the landing gears, but how is wing possible?? :shock:

Nobody was able to see a young boy flapping beneath the wing??
...named Andrei, clambered into a wing's wheel well after running away from his...
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THEICEMAN wrote:I've heard of people strapping themselves to the landing gears, but how is wing possible?? :shock:

Nobody was able to see a young boy flapping beneath the wing??

are you for real? :smt075
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THEICEMAN wrote:I've heard of people strapping themselves to the landing gears, but how is wing possible?? :shock:

Nobody was able to see a young boy flapping beneath the wing??
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Please tell you your kidding, if not re read the post.
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Ooops....didn't read the article in full. Just saw the title and tought....well :oops: :oops: :oops:

I'll shut up now! :oops:
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THEICEMAN wrote:I'll shut up now! :oops:
Pancakes for everyone!!!
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now if only I could find my aunt jemima!
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Post by invertedattitude »

Aunt Jemima wrote:
THEICEMAN wrote:I'll shut up now! :oops:
Pancakes for everyone!!!
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Pancakes??
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INT. CAR

Carl Showalter is driving. Gaear Grimsrud stares blankly
out.

After a long beat:

GRIMSRUD
Where is Pancakes Hause?

CARL
What?

GRIMSRUD
We stop at Pancakes Hause.

CARL
What're you, nuts? We had
pancakes for breakfast. I gotta
go somewhere I can get a shot
and a beer - and a steak maybe.
Not more fuckin' pancakes. Come
on.

Grimsrud gives him a sour look.

CARL
... Come on, man. Okay, here's
an idea. We'll stop outside of
Brainerd. I know a place there
we can get laid. Wuddya think?

GRIMSRUD
I'm fuckin' hungry now, you know.

CARL
Yeah, yeah, Jesus - I'm sayin',
we'll stop for pancakes, then
we'll get laid. Wuddya think?
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Post by Four1oh »

heheh, Fargo, right?
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“The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.”
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Post by THEICEMAN »

:lol:
you guys are just way too Canadian!
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Post by Four1oh »

do you mean to say that you aren't? :?
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I'm Canadian/Quebecois.....never really traveled within Canada prior to Flying. Different world here?
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Post by Four1oh »

well, different than your world! :P
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Ha..your soo cool :roll:
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Post by Rotten Apple #1 »

Ha..your soo cool
...meaning "tete carree" perhaps?

(I don't know how to add accents)

:wink:

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