several hours with little oxygen. this boy is thought to have breached perimeter security in charlotte, north carolina and hidden in the wheel well of a flight to boston. as the plane landed the teenager fell to his death as the landing gear deployed. this is a tragedy, first and foremost for the family. secondly, it s something once this occurs we want to make sure it never happens again. reporter: for decades now, stowaways have been a rare but real problem. look at this life magazine photo from 1970. 14-year-old keith drops out of the gear bay of a japan airlines dc-8 and falls to his death shortly after takeoff in sydney australia. a gruesome sdet a risk during take off and landing. body parts from a stowaway fell from a well wheel of a jet in 2005 before it landed in new york. a woman on the flight path
bone-chilling odds. a cuban defector did it in 2002 by hiding in the wheel well of a dc-10 that landed on the tarmac in montreal. victor molina described it as so cold he couldn t breathe. eventually was granted the political asylum he risked his life for. he joins a rare group of a couple of dozen people in the history of aviation known to have hitched a ride in the under belly of airplanes and lived to tell us about it n. 2000, fidel was dazed but conscious after seven hours on a flight from tahiti to los angeles but more than three-quarters of stowaways suffer the kind of fate it would expect after being in a space colder than a freezer for several hours with little oxygen. this boy is thought to have breached perimeter security in charlotte, north carolina and