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Several hours with little oxygen. this boy is thought to have breached perimeter security in charlotte, north carolina and hidden in the wheel well of a flight to boston. as the plane landed the teenager fell to his death as the landing gear deployed. >> this is a tragedy, first and foremost for the family. secondly, it's something once this occurs we want to make sure it never happens again. >> reporter: for decades now, stowaways have been a rare but real problem. look at this "life" magazine photo from 1970. 14-year-old keith drops out of the gear bay of a japan airlines dc-8 and falls to h...

Hidden in the wheel well of a flight to boston. as the plane landed the teenager fell to his death as the landing gear deployed. >> this is a tragedy, first and foremost for the family. secondly, it's something once this occurs we want to make sure it never happens again. >> reporter: for decades now, stowaways have been a rare but real problem. look at this "life" magazine photo from 1970. 14-year-old keith drops out of the gear bay of a japan airlines dc-8 and falls to his death shortly after takeoff in sydney australia. a gruesome death a risk during take off and landing. body parts from a ...

See this massive door here? after takeoff it swings open to make room for the huge tires. inside of that compartment, there's really no room for anything else but those awfully big tires. still stowaways have managed to survive, though some endured severe frostbite like this man who flew from havana to madrid in a dc-8, more than 4500 miles. this man who flew from vienna to london, perhaps we can add another name to the list of unlikely survivors. ryan owens, abc news, mojave, california. >> a lot of people cannot believe this happened. it has happened in the past. ryan showed you a couple of ...

Contact with the ground, that garage. . >> it's a dreary december morning in 1960, when twa and united have another catastrophic incident. this time, over new york city. 10:25 a.m., air traffic control alters the route of united flight 826, a dc-8, shaving 11 miles off its path to new york's laguardia airport. 10:30 a.m., united is at 14,000 feet and cleared to descend to five. at the same moment, twa flight 266, a super-cony, like the one that crashed over the grand canyon, is headed to idlewild airport, known now as jfk. it's coming through 8,000 feet. united is told to head to a specific na...

Enter a holding pattern and await further instructions, but there are problems. the plane has two navigational instruments used at the time to determine position. one of them isn't working. and the plane is also traveling more than 500 miles per hour, a speed later determined to be excessive and the dc-8 flies past its clearance. >> i would equate it to driving down a street. if you know where you are and you know the second left turn is the turn you need to make, that's great. but if you didn't see the first road to the left, you would drive beyond it because you didn't recognize the first cu...