when a 15-year-old climbed the airport perimeter fence in san jose, avoided detection for six hours, and hid in the wheel well of a 767, there is still no indication he had any idea where he was going. only that he was home sick for his family in seem mallia. mohammed olad, voice of america spoke to the boy s father today in california, who believes his son will be home soon. the father believed that the son was he didn t know the plane, where it was going, and he was like like a stowaway boy who wanted to run away from home, to send his message that he was very sick for home. reporter: perhaps unconscious for most of the ordeal, the teen was clearly not prepared to endure a five-hour flight with little oxygen and sub-zero temperatures. after landing in maui and regaining consciousness, he was spotted by a startled baggage handler. he appeared to be
throughout the morning. low cloud ceilings. investigators say at this point it s way too early to speculate on what brought down flight 1354. right now on the left side of your screen you are looking at live pictures from our crew on site just off the airport property. you can see that there are no homes in the immediate area where the plane went down. it s a grassy field just outside the airport perimeter fence. trees and power lines were knocked down and the two pilots onboard the aircraft, the only two people onboard, were killed and pronounced dead at the scene according to the birmingham fire chief. no one on the ground was injured because of this sparsely populated area. the crash is not interfering with airport operations according to local officials. u.p.s. confirms this aircraft was an a-300 series cargo jet. one of 53 in operation with the