A man is lucky to be alive after secretly boarding a flight to London and hiding in the undercarriage. The man survived a flight over the Alps inside the undercarriage of a jumbo jet owned by a prominent Arab sheikh.

etihad flightThe Romanian man was extremely lucky to have survived being exposed to temperatures as low as -41C. The flight to London from Vienna in Austria lasted only 1 hour and 40 minutes, which the man spent entirely inside the wheel compartment. The plane was privately owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.

The stowaway, a 20 year old Romanian man, did not know where he would end up when boarding the plane. Unfortunately for him he ended up in London, England – a country part of the European Union that he could have entered legally. Though, to be fair, he was luck it was not a long haul flight or he surely would have succumbed to the harsh conditions in the undercarriage.