Not everyone can afford to fly on a charter jet. The fact of the matter is that most folks have to settle for commercial airliners, especially if they want to travel any real distance. A Romanian man, however, tried to buck the system and get a ride on a private jet as a stowaway. More than that, he decided to stow away in the wheel well of the plane.
Now, normally, this is a horrible idea. Most of the time, a charter jet like the one that the man stowed away on would reach a height of more than 30,000 feet. This would have certainly killed the man, as the high pressure and temperatures inside of the wheel well would have caused tremendous stress on his body.
As fate would have it, however, the weather happened to be bad that day. Because of this, the 90-minute flight from Vienna to London never reached anywhere near the normal 30,000 feet.
When the plane landed in London’s Heathrow airport, the man fell out of the landing gear’s compartment, where he was discovered by authorities.
The 20 year-old man, who claimed that he was looking for work, told the authorities in London that he had crawled underneath a fence somewhere near a construction site on the Vienna airport grounds, and jumped into the first plane he could find.
That plain was the private jet of a sheik from the UAE, according to the daily Kurier newspaper in Austria.
The lesson here is clear, of course. If you can’t afford a charter jet, feel free to jump into the wheel well of someone else’s private jet. Just make sure there are massive storm fronts all along the jet’s travel path, or you could wind up not quite making it in one piece.
