{"id":647645,"date":"2025-09-24T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647645"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:01:51","slug":"afghan-boys-trip-reminds-when-2-indians-hid-in-wheel-well-of-uk-flight-one-lived-to-tell-a-tale-of-luck-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghan-boys-trip-reminds-when-2-indians-hid-in-wheel-well-of-uk-flight-one-lived-to-tell-a-tale-of-luck-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan boy&#8217;s trip reminds: When 2 Indians hid in wheel well of UK flight, one lived to tell a tale of luck, tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a 13-year-old Afghan boy landed in Delhi by hiding in the wheel well of a plane from Kabul, his escape\/adventure brought back memories of a similar incident \u2014 only much bigger, much more tragic \u2014 from three decades ago, when two brothers from India&#8217;s Punjab tried this method to get to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>They were much older, and only one of them made it. The survivor&#8217;s story stood out as a medical anomaly. He went on to get residential status and worked at London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport. But that&#8217;s only an unfairly brief version of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a 13-year-old Afghan boy landed in Delhi by hiding in the wheel well of a plane from Kabul, his escape\/adventure brought back memories of a similar incident \u2014 only much bigger, much more tragic \u2014 from three decades ago, when two brothers from India&#8217;s Punjab tried this method to get to the UK. They were much older, and only one of them made it. The survivor&#8217;s story stood out as a medical anomaly. He went on to get residential status and worked at London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport. But that&#8217;s only an unfairly brief version of the story.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647645","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=647645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}