The man survived the flight by riding the plane's landing gear

French authorities said Thursday that an unidentified man was found on the landing gear of an Air Algerie commercial flight from Oran to Paris.

An airport official also said: "The man, believed to be in his 20s, was alive after flying for 2 hours and 30 minutes, but his life was in danger due to severe hypothermia." Authorities said he was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition and had no identification.

Commercial airliners typically fly at altitudes of 3,000 to 12,000 meters (9,000 to 12,000 feet), where temperatures drop to -50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit) and the lack of oxygen causes severe hypoxia, so anyone traveling in the landing gear compartment has little chance of survival. there is none. Last year, a man was found on a flight from South Africa to the Netherlands via Kenya. A passenger identified as Kenyan has been found in the nose section of a cargo plane at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. In July 2019, a man's frozen corpse landed in a garden outside London. A Kenya Airways plane has crashed from its landing gear while approaching Heathrow Airport. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the fatality rate for passengers ejected from airplanes from 1947 to 2021 was approximately 77 percent.

During this period, 132 people were identified as runaways who attempted to travel on the undercarriage of commercial aircraft, according to the FAA.