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Boy stowaway falls to death from plane
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-26 09:14

A 10-year-old boy, believed to have stowed away in an airliner's landing gear, fell to his death when the plane took off at Northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday.


A boy aged 10 fell to his death from a China Eastern Airlines A320 bound for Lanzhou from Dunhuang yesterday. The accident reveals the security loopholes of the Dunhuang airport. [newsphoto]

The boy fell when the China Eastern Airlines A320 airbus took off from Dunhuang, a well-known tourist city, for Lanzhou, capital of Gansu, at 7:50 a.m.

The aircraft arrived in Lanzhou as scheduled.

Local hospital said the boy was a resident of Dunhuang.

Gansu branch of the airline company said the landing gear was usually unwrapped at about 15 meters above the ground and the boy might have fallen out of the plane at the height.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has dispatched a team to investigate the incident, which, it said, exposed loopholes in the Dunhang airport management.

It is the second incident of its kind in the country since last year.

Two homeless teenage boys stowed away in an airliner's landing gear, resulting in one of them falling to his death last November.

Shu Qing fell during a 688-kilometer flight between Kunming and Chongqing, which reached an altitude of about 7,600 meters.

The other boy, Liang Penglong, survived the hour-long flight, and only had a slight case of frostbite and hypothermia when he was found by baggage handlers at the Chongqing airport.

Medical experts say it was a miracle that Liang survived the flight, because temperatures during the trip would have been extremely low and there would be little oxygen.

The Kunming airport was held responsible for the incident.

Liang said they entered the airport through a broken fence. The two runaways were from a Kunming relief center.




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