Jet stowaway survives flight hanging on to wheels

A man survived hiding in a jet’s landing gear on a flight from Vienna to Heathrow.

Jet stowaway survives flight hanging on to wheels

A man survived hiding in a jet’s landing gear on a flight from Vienna to Heathrow.

Austria police said the man, a 20-year-old Romanian, told British officers that he crawled under the wire of the fence surrounding the airport and climbed into the undercarriage of the jumbo jet that was parked near a building site.

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