why did 100 al dade fighters feel confident enough to come out in front of cameras and show their faces. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. now teenage stowaway who flew in a flaplane's wheel well said he was trying to get to somalia to see his mom. >> investigators say they didn't think the boy -- they think the boy didn't even know where the plane he climbed into was heading. he just went to the nearest aircraft. >> the 15-year-old is in hospital in hawaii. authorities say he survived subzero temperatures and decompleted oxygen levels. i have to say there are not many people who have made it out alive after trying to stowaway in a plane. >> surprisingly people have been trying to get away for decades. >> reporter: being a stowaway and a survivor means beating bone chilling odds. the cuban defector did it in 2002 by identifying in the wheel