The Afghan boy in landing gear bay: A story of survival
New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- On Sunday morning, ground staff at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport spotted a barefoot boy in a kurta-pajama walking dazed on the taxiway near a Kam Air flight that had just arrived from Kabul. The sight instantly triggered alarm bells, kicking off a multi-agency response involving immigration authorities, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), the Intelligence Bureau (IB), and the Union home and external affairs ministries, among others, officials aware of the matter said on Tuesday.
It turned out that the 13-year-old - identified by officials by only his first name, Faizal - had made the perilous 90-minute journey hidden inside the wheel-well of the aircraft, an impossibly dangerous feat that has k...
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