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JOHANNESBURG — Security has been heightened at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport after two stowaways boarded a flight to London on Wednesday. One of them plunged to his death shortly before the British Airways plane landed. The second survived but remains in a critical condition. There is still no word on how the men managed to evade authorities at South Africa’s biggest airport and board a plane bound for London.
It also remains a mystery how one of the stowaways survived the almost 11-hour long journey, enduring temperatures of close to 60-degrees below zero and extreme altitude.
It’s not an impossible feat, just highly unlikely. Survival trainer, David Rabie says, “You would become stiff quite quickly and you would lose consciousness. But you would need to have appropriate dress, the most incredible temperature controlled dress.
“And you would have to have vast quantities of food to supply your body with energy.”
The survivor, said to be in his mid-twenties, is fighting for his life. About an hour after he was found in the plane’s undercarriage, a body was discovered on a London rooftop.
Police are yet to confirm the stowaways’ identities or nationalities. — eNCA
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