India, Sept. 23 -- A 13-year-old boy from Afghanistan stunned airport authorities on Sunday when he arrived at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport not as a seated passenger but as a "wheel-well stowaway," hiding inside the landing gear compartment of a Kam Air aircraft, officials aware of the matter said on Monday.

The incident occurred around 11.10am on Sunday, when Kam Airlines flight RQ-4401 from Kabul landed in Delhi after a 1.5-hour journey.

As the aircraft taxied, the airline's chief security officer spotted the boy walking on the taxiway near the plane and immediately alerted the airport's Security Operations Control Centre, according to an airport official, who asked not to be identified.

The boy was quickly detai...