Teen Survives Flight To Hawaii In Jet's Wheel Well, FBI Says
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Re: Teen Survives Flight To Hawaii In Jet's Wheel Well, FBI Says
#2FBI and Homeland Security need this to be a miracle, so Terrorist don't figure out that you could do the same thing with a bomb, and not have to even get on the plane.
Re: Teen Survives Flight To Hawaii In Jet's Wheel Well, FBI Says
#3FBI and Homeland Security need this to be a miracle, so Terrorist don't figure out that you could do the same thing with a bomb, and not have to even get on the plane.
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Re: Teen Survives Flight To Hawaii In Jet's Wheel Well, FBI Says
#4FBI and Homeland Security need this to be a miracle, so Terrorist don't figure out that you could do the same thing with a bomb, and not have to even get on the plane.
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#5FBI and Homeland Security need this to be a miracle, so Terrorist don't figure out that you could do the same thing with a bomb, and not have to even get on the plane.
It is somewhat of a miracle. Flying stowed away on a plane is extremely dangerous and most will die, or at least come out with very serious issues.
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#6Eh, 50% odds aren't that bad:
http://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamt...
Re: Teen Survives Flight To Hawaii In Jet's Wheel Well, FBI Says
#7WHY IS THIS on the front page of Hacker News? This is a community of Entrepreneurs and Hackers. What is this Reddit now? Flag this crap into oblivion.
Edit: Thanks for the down votes. No I won't back down. I've seen this happen to Digg when it first started then Reddit and now HN. We used to be a community for hackers by hackers and entrepreneurs / aspiring entrepreneurs. Now we're being over-run by a group of info-addicted maniacs who want HN to turn into another time sink. Over the last 2 months I've been taking screenshots of the stupid nonsense that shows up on the front page. The pattern is undeniable. HN is getting more political and more off topic. The same thing that led to the downfall of Digg and Reddit and why we ran to HN to start anew.
Edit: Thank you to everyone who flagged it. It's gone now.
Re: Teen Survives Flight To Hawaii In Jet's Wheel Well, FBI Says
#8FBI and Homeland Security need this to be a miracle, so Terrorist don't figure out that you could do the same thing with a bomb, and not have to even get on the plane.
It is somewhat of a miracle. Flying stowed away on a plane is extremely dangerous and most will die, or at least come out with very serious issues.
Terrorists may not act the way you expect. Some may be perfectly willing to destroy a flight without destroying themselves. For those terrorists, the wheel well may very well come in handy as an unsecured location to stash a bomb that will be protected from the elements.
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#9First, I want to know if he looked this up online before attempting it. Such a sad story (running from home) but makes me wonder if there's more "airborn hobos" out there. My next question is, what was he wearing? Did he have a sleeping bag? Did he really, really want to get to Hawaii? Did he want to get as far as possible from his parents? Or did he simply hide in the first plane he saw after jumping the fence?
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#10I wonder how long someone could survive in this hypothermic state? Days? Months? Years? Decades? Imagine you were terminally ill could you hoist yourself in a weather balloon to 40k feet with an iv of nutrition and float around until they found a cure for your disease? It must be a lot cheaper then cryogenically freezing.