A spokesperson for Maastricht Aachen Airport said: He had tremendous luck to get through this.
The Turkish Airlines AIrbus A330 flew at a height of 5800m and the temperature in the landing gear bay would have fallen to -30C, the spokesperson said.
The teenager has been hospitalised with hypothermia after his illegal flight last Thursday but is otherwise unharmed.
Dutch police say there are attempting to trace the boy s precise route. They have not ruled out human trafficking connections.
Authorities and aviation experts have warned that there is only a slim chance of aircraft stowaways surviving.
In July 2019, a stowaway fell from a plane s undercarriage into the backyard of a London home as it neared Heathrow Airport.