The Dutch police say they have found a stowaway alive in the wheel section of a plane that landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport from South Africa.
Flights from Johannesburg to Amsterdam take about 11 hours, with the cargo plane believed to have made one stop, in Nairobi, Kenya.
It is very unusual for stowaways on long-haul flights to survive, given the cold and low oxygen at high altitudes.
The man’s age and nationality have not yet been determined, police say.
A spokesman for the freight carrier Cargolux confirmed in an email to Reuters that the man had stowed away on a flight operated by Cargolux Italia.
According to flight data, the only Cargolux freight flight from Johannesburg to Schiphol on Sunday also made a stop in Nairobi. It is not known if the man boarded the plane in South Africa or Kenya.
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