{"id":456392,"date":"2021-12-16T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=456392"},"modified":"2021-12-16T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:50:52","slug":"flying-in-cargo-compartments-a-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flying-in-cargo-compartments-a-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying in cargo compartments, a look back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The IndiGo loader who flew inside an aircraft cargo compartment from Mumbai to Abu Dhabi on Sunday wasn\u2019t the first passenger to fly among bags and containers. Six years ago, a similar incident had occurred in the US, when a ramp worker involuntarily ended up flying from Seattle to Los Angeles in the cargo compartment of an Alaska Airlines aircraft.<br \/>\nFor the Mumbai airport too, a human travelling in a cargo compartment wasn\u2019t a first. In mid-1960s, Australian former athlete Reg Spiers &#8220;posted&#8221; himself and flew in a cargo box from England to Australia inside an Air India aircraft as he didn&#8217;t have money to buy to an air ticket. The airline, unaware of the human inside the box, put it in the cargo compartment for a three day long flight from London with transit halts in Paris and Mumbai on its way to Perth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The IndiGo loader who flew inside an aircraft cargo compartment from Mumbai to Abu Dhabi on Sunday wasn\u2019t the first passenger to fly among bags and containers. Six years ago, a similar incident had occurred in the US, when a ramp worker involuntarily ended up flying from Seattle to Los Angeles in the cargo compartment of an Alaska Airlines aircraft. For the Mumbai airport too, a human travelling in a cargo compartment wasn\u2019t a first. In mid-1960s, Australian former athlete Reg Spiers &#8220;posted&#8221; himself and flew in a cargo box from England to Australia inside an Air India aircraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}