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A Guatemalan man, 26, (main) was hiding inside the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines for two-and-a-half hours from Guatemala to Miami on Saturday. He crawled into the landing gear compartment to evade detection, but the US Customs and Border Protection officers apprehended him at the Miami International Airport. The average commercial flight cruises at an altitude between 30,000 and 42,000 feet, reaching a temperature of -54 F and extremely low oxygen levels of around 6.3percent, similar to being inside a hipoxyco chamber. According to the FAA, he is one out of 129 people to attempt to stow away in the wheel wells since 1947.
