Stowed Away In Aircraft's Undercarriage
Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, July 13. A Portuguese boy was found ,> wandering about a London airport, blue with cold' and with his teeth chattering. Asked why he was there and what he wanted, he explained that he stowed away in a British aircraft in Lishon because he had lost his job and heard there was plenty of work in England. The place he chose to stowaway was the undercarriage. He risked being crushed when the great landing wheels were drawn up into their housing and closed him in completely. He also risked injury as the aircrai't lowered its wheels to land and space yawned beneath him. While the aircraft — a York — flew nearly 1000 miles, he shivered in below • freezing temperatures. -It cured his desire to work in England. "The journey was very frightening," he said. ."All I want to do is to go home again." He was sent back — in a heated eabin.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 July 1948, Page 5
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