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"At all cruising jet altitudes, the PP0 2 is below that required to support brain consciousness. All jet wheel-well stowaways at these cruise altitudes will lose consciousness from hypoxia."

So they always pass out but sometimes are able to wake up and manage to get out. Barely. Usually they die.

Wish we didn't have places so terrible to live that a person resorts to this.

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It would seem likely they were consumed by the proximate concerns of evading notice and making it to the plane and had no idea or thought about the dangers of being at such high altitudes.

Five of the ten in the table were flying from San Diego, Lyons, Sydney, Paris, and Lisbon.

Though the stowaways may have had individually terrible reasons to try this, I don't think of those five places as being particularly terrible.

I dunno, being a refugee legally in San Diego is enough to get you sent to an Ecuadorian prison camp these days.

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