Can you survive flight in wheel well?


Can you survive flight in wheel well? Among 99 known cases of wheel-well stowaways from 1947 through June 6, 2013, there were 76 fatalities and 23 survivors. It is possible there are additional undocumented cases of successful surviving wheel-well stowaways escaping the aircraft undetected possibly with outside assistance.


Is there oxygen at 30 000 feet?

Although air contains 20.9% oxygen at all altitudes, lower air pressure at high altitude makes it feel like there is a lower percentage of oxygen.


Why is it so cold at 35000 feet?

Air itself is constantly in motion; it will often rise toward the sky. But, any air that rises will expand and cool, as it encounters progressively lower atmospheric pressure (explained further in the next section). The upshot is that the air outside a plane will be much colder than at ground level.


Is there oxygen at 35000 feet?

Planes have lower oxygen levels If this didn't happen, everyone inside the plane would die, as the low air pressure at the elevations planes fly (typically 35,000 feet or so) means there isn't enough oxygen present for your body to function.


Have people fallen out of a plane and survived?

A 23-year-old Serbian flight attendant, Vesna Vulovi, survived the world's longest known fall from a plane without a parachute just one year after Juliane. A mid-air explosion in 1972 saw Vesna plummet 9 kilometres into thick snow in Czechoslovakia.