STOWAWAY’S INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
IT WAS a plan so outrageous it beggars belief. Two young men desperate to escape their lives of hunger and hardship pore over aircraft engineering books and hatch a scheme to stow away on a Boeing 747.
They sneak into OR Tambo International Airport, manage to evade security, then wait until after dark before jumping over perimeter fences and dashing out onto the apron where a British Airways plane is waiting to take off for London.
They creep into the landing gear of the aircraft, strap themselves in and manage to survive the 11-hour, 9 000km flight, enduring temperatures of minus-60 degrees Celsius and speeds of more than 850km/h.
As the plane approaches
