SWEDEN-STOWAWAY Stowaway survives eight hour flight in jet's cargo hold

Record ID: 143371

  • Title: SWEDEN-STOWAWAY Stowaway survives eight hour flight in jet's cargo hold
  • Date: 14th August 2015
  • Summary: ARLANDA, NEAR STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (AUGUST 14, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ETHIOPIAN AIRWAYS PLANE ON TARMAC AIRPORT OPERATOR SWEDAVIA SPOKESMAN HENRIK KELFVE BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) AIRPORT OPERATOR SWEDAVIA SPOKESMAN HENRIK KELFVE, SAYING: "It was a man from Ethiopia who somehow managed to get into the freight area in the plane and landed at Arlanda this morning and when they were unloading the plane they found the man and then, of course, we took this errant to the police department so they can take it further." VARIOUS OF PLANE ON TARMAC (SOUNDBITE) (English) AIRPORT OPERATOR SWEDAVIA SPOKESMAN HENRIK KELFVE, SAYING: "According to the information I have he was feeling okay, which is sort of lucky since the temperature in freight areas can be low if they are not heated and also the oxygen level can be low if you don't add oxygen, so he had luck, and when we landed we had a nurse attend to him and he got a cup of warm tea and the police took it from there." PLANE'S NOSE (SOUNDBITE) (English) AIRPORT OPERATOR SWEDAVIA SPOKESMAN HENRIK KELFVE, SAYING: "How this was able to happen is a question that has to be addressed to the airport in Ethiopia. Of course, we are thinking - we are managing 10 airports in Sweden - and we are thinking 'could this happen at our airports?'. We can't see how that could happen since security is always top priority." TERMINAL INTERIOR/ PEOPLE WAITING TO CHECK IN CHECK-IN QUEUE SELF CHECK-IN TERMINALS PASSENGERS WALKING AIRPORT WITH CONTROL TOWER CONTROL TOWER TERMINAL BUILDING PLANE IN AIR AFTER TAKING OFF
  • Embargoed: 29th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Sweden
  • Country: Sweden
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: Swedish police on Friday (August 14) detained a stowaway who was found in the cargo bay of a plane after a flight from Ethiopia to Stockholm.
    The jet landed at Arlanda airport after the eight hour, 5,800 kilometre (3,604 miles) flight from Addis Ababa and baggage handlers found him as they unloaded the plane.
    Airport operator Swedavia's spokesman Henrik Kelfve confirmed the Ethiopian national had been handed over to police.
    Kelfve said the man, thought to be in his 20s, was lucky to be alive.
    "He was feeling okay which is sort of lucky since the temperature in freight areas can be low if they are not heated and also the oxygen level can be low so he had luck. We had a nurse attend to him and he got a cup of warm tea and the police took it from there," he said.
    Kelfve said it was now up to the Ethiopian airport to investigate how its security had been breached.
    "How this was able to happen is a question that has to be addressed to the airport in Ethiopia," added Kelfve.
    Police questioned the man and then handed him over to a migration authorities.
    According to local media reports the man intends to seek asylum in Sweden.
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