| A Guatemalan man in his 20s who smuggled into the United States by hiding in an airplane landing gear on the 27th (local time) (local media Twitter capture) © News1 |
A Guatemalan man in his 20s was caught hiding in an airplane landing gear and smuggled into the United States.
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arrested a 26-year-old man who hid in a landing gear as soon as an American Airlines flight from Guatemala arrived in Miami on the 27th (local time), according to foreign media such as Reuters and the Washington Post. said. The flight time was reported to be about 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Authorities plan to transport the man to a hospital, check his health, and decide whether to deport him.
A video uploaded by the local online media “Only in Dade” showed the man sitting down. He looked tired, but apparently there were no injuries.
Guatemala is said to account for most of the 1.7 million Latin American immigrants deported to the United States last year to escape extreme poverty and violence.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) statistics, since 1947, a total of 129 people have been caught trying to smuggle into the landing gear.
Some have survived as dramatic as this man, but many are found dead on the way, either from a fall or from hypothermia or hypoxia.
After the Taliban’s occupation of Afghanistan in August, a US military plane evacuating Afghans was caught on camera as it crashed while clinging to a landing gear.
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