A 31 year old Canadian man recently tried to buy a one-way
ticket on a Qantas flight from LAX to Sydney, but was
turned down because he could not supply a valid credit
card. Later, he managed to climb over an airport
fence, topped by three strands of barbed wire, without
injury and was spotted by an airport worker
“running, naked, full-speed” toward the
plane. He climbed into the wheel well of a moving
Qantas 747. Pilots of the Qantas Airways flight
stopped the plane. The man was coaxed out of the wheel
well and arrested for trespass. An airport
spokesperson said: “

”.his was an extremely dangerous thing for him to
do. If he had continued to cling in there with the
aircraft taking off at over 200 miles (320 kph) per hour,
he might have fallen out and could have been sucked up by
an engine.”

”.f he had survived that and was in the wheel well
when the landing gear was retracted, he could have been
crushed by the mechanism. And if not he very likely would
have frozen to death during the 15 1/2 hour flight at
30,000 feet (9,150 metres) while wearing no
clothes.”.