Did kid, 16, hitch ride from California to Hawaii in plane's arriving rigging?

FBI: Teen covered up in plane wheel well

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

 NEW: Being in a wheel well is similar to all of a sudden being on top of Everest, expert says

 NEW: Some stowaways have made due in wheel wells notwithstanding chilly, absence of oxygen

 Footage confirms parts of what the kid told examiners

(CNN) - The first sign something was off was the point at which the ground group at Kahului Airport in Maui perceived a kid meandering the landing area, stunned and befuddled.

The story he told authorities was significantly more amazing.

The 16-year-old obviously hitched a ride from San Jose, California, to Maui, Hawaii, in the arriving apparatus wheel well of a Boeing 767, Hawaiian Airlines said Sunday.

"Our essential concern now is for the prosperity of the kid, who is particularly fortunate to have survived," the carrier said.

He unquestionably is.

On the off chance that his story works out - and the FBI has been brought into explore - he rode in the small confined compartment for very nearly five hours, at heights that arrived at 38,000 feet, without oxygen and under below zero temperatures.

That has a few specialists addressing his story.

"It sounds truly extraordinary," said flying master Jeff Wise. "Being in a wheel well is similar to the sum of a sudden being on top of Mount Everest."

Between the oxygen exhaustion and the icy, future "is measured in minutes," Wise said.

Yet some individuals have survived. A study by the Federal Aviation Administration took a gander at 10 wheel-well traveler stowaways between 1947 and 1993, including flights as high as 39,000 feet. Five individuals survived. The conditions place them in a virtual "hibernative" state, the report said.

"For some individual to survive various hours with that absence of oxygen and that cool is simply wonderful," air transport examiner Peter Forman told CNN member KHON in Honolulu on Monday.

Features confirm occasions

Still, a few parts of the kid's story work out.

Powers don't know who the kid is. He didn't have an ID. The main thing he did have on him was a brush.

He told powers he was from Santa Clara, California, and fled from home Sunday morning, said FBI Special Agent Tom Simon.

Agents have reconnaissance Polaroid footage of him jumping the wall at San Jose International Airport.

There's additionally Polaroid footage of him strolling over the slope in San Jose around the Hawaiian air ship, the California runway said.

He told agents he slithered into the wheel well of the plane and lost cognizance when the plane took off.

A hour after the plane arrived at Kahului Airport, the kid recovered cognizance and developed to a "stunned" ground group, Simon said.

The Maui airstrip has feature of him slithering out of the left principle gear range.

"It bodes well for me," Simon said.

The adolescent hasn't been accused of an elected wrongdoing, and was put with kid defensive administrations.

Fatal occurrences

In February, teams at Dulles International Airport in suburban Washington discovered the collection of a man inside the arriving apparatus wheel well of an Airbus A340 worked by South African Airways.

In 2010, a 16-year-old kid passed on after he dropped out of the wheel well of a US Airways flight that was arriving at Boston's Logan International Airport.

As far and wide as possible, a significant number of the individuals who endeavor wheel well stowaways are looking to escape their nations through worldwide flights.

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