STOWAWAY IN PLANE
AMAZING CASE OF JAVANESE BOY HID IN ENGINE NACELLE DARWIN, -August 8. A Javanese boy, aged 12, who stowed away in the engine nacelle of a Douglas Dakota transport aeroplane owned by the Dutch, travelled from Koepang to Darwin in three hours. He is now in quarantine in the Darwin Hospital, where he is being treated for multiple burns, exposure and shock. The boy was discovered late last night by a mechanic at Darwin, who saw him in an unconscious condition twined about the undercarriage lowering mechanism within the nacelle. After regaining consciousness the boy said he had come from Koepang. Royal Australian Air Force officers are astounded that anyone could have lived at 9000 feet in a blast of ail’ while the aeroplane travelled at 160 miles an hour. The cavity is considered completely filled when the wheels are up. The biggest mystery is why the unconscious boy did not fall out when the wheels were lowered over Darwin. He is small and slightly built, and was wearing only • shirt and shorts.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1946, Page 7
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