The myth about stowaway in airplanes wheel chamber.

Military person during HALO
 (high altitude – low opening) parachute jump
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If somebody is enough mad, and that person has the strong motivator anything could happen. If somebody wants to travel secretly to some other country theoretically the best way to make that secret trip, is to hide in some airplane’s wheel box. Those trips might cause the death for those travelers, but if they have the right equipment, like warm clothes and oxygen or air bottles the trip might be possible. If we think about the world record for the parachute jump, where the parachutist used a pressurized suit, and the altitude of some ski centers, which are above 4000 meters, we must realize that if the traveler will travel with commuter airplanes, he or she might not even need an extra oxygen.


There are rumors and stories about stowaway traveling in the airplane's wheel chamber, and the most of those attempts will end, when the passenger dies in the cold and loss of the air in the altitude of 10 000 meters. So never try this at the home. But traveling in that place is possible if the traveler has the right equipment. If somebody wants to travel in wheel box of the airplane, that person needs the suit, what keeps warm inside, and that equipment is the rescue suit, what is made for the arctic conditions. That person might also use small size compressor to fill those gas bottles, but I want to say that attempt to travel in the wheel box of airplanes will have the extreme risk.

Picture 2
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Also, the extra oxygen is needed in that kind of action. Or that person might use fishing hauler and electric blanket, what keeps that person warm. And of course, he or she needs a parachute or wingsuit, what is in the second picture, because if that person wants to come in some country secretly, that traveler must jump from the plane, before it lands to the airfield because otherwise, the airport crew will find that person. The use of wingsuit might be easier than the use of the parachute.  If I write in some text, where is mentioned, that some things are possible, that doesn’t mean that those actions are easy.


The person who wants to travel that way needs also life west if he or she needs to jump above from sea and very good parachute jump skills. The traveler must use free fall drop from the plane, because there is the need for separation, and after that, the parachute must be opened. But here is one big question. Why somebody does that? Why some persons want to hide some trips even with risking they own life.


One answer might be that some secret service or special forces operator might able to bring to the country for some secret operations, but there is another hypothesis, where somebody will able to try that kind of mission. And of course, that person must be sure, that there will not leave anything in that small chamber because in that situation the airport crew must see those stuff. That somebody might be some person, who desperately wants to escape from some country because he or she might fear for the lives.