{"id":647655,"date":"2025-09-24T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647655"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:08:48","slug":"afghan-boys-survival-in-aircraft-wheel-bay-shocks-aviation-experts-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghan-boys-survival-in-aircraft-wheel-bay-shocks-aviation-experts-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan boy\u2019s survival in aircraft wheel bay shocks aviation experts in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday morning, ground staff at Delhi\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that the 13-year-old\u2013 identified by officials by only his first name, Faizal \u2013 had made the perilous 90-minute journey hidden inside the wheel-well of the aircraft, an impossibly dangerous feat that has killed many who attempted it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday morning, ground staff at Delhi\u2019s 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\u2013 identified by officials by only his first name, Faizal \u2013 had made the perilous 90-minute journey hidden [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647655","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\/647655","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=647655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}