Young boy, stowed away in wheel housing, falls to his death from an airplane
Young boy, stowed away in wheel housing, falls to his death from an airplane.
This incident occurred in 1970. A young stowaway, Keith Sapsford, who was 14 at the time, fell 200 feet to his death from a Japan Airlines plane, taking off from Sydney, Australia, and bound for Tokyo.
This heart-stopping photo was taken by Sydney-based amateur photographer, John Gilpin.
The story goes that Keith had run away from a ‘boys town’ in Sydney, with a burning desire to see the world. He, apparently, stowed himself away in the wheel housing of the aircraft, several hours before the plane took off.
When the door of the wheel housing opened after takeoff so the wheel could be retracted, the boy fell to his untimely and tragic death.
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The boy and his family had just been on a trip around the world to try to satisfy the schoolboy's thirst for travel, according to articles published at the time.
'All my son wanted to do was to see the world. He had itchy feet. His determination to see how the rest of the world lives has cost him his life,' his father, Charles Sapford said in a reported by Associated Press from February 23, 1970.
His father described him as a wanderer who had an 'urge to keep on the move'.
But after they returned to their home in Randwick, Keith remained restless.
Charles decided to send him to a Roman Catholic Institution called Boys' Town in south Sydney to 'straighten him out' after Keith ran away from home multiple times.
Technicians believe the boy - who was dressed only in shorts and a short-sleeved shirt - was unaware the latch would reopen after take-off to bring the wheel back inside, which is when he fell. Experts later found hand and footprints as well as threads from his clothes in the compartment.
Doctors believe he would have most likely died on the journey even if he hadn't have fallen due to freezing altitude temperatures and a lack of oxygen. Mr Sapsford, a lecturer in mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of New South Wales, believed his son may have been crushed by the retracting wheel.
In the weeks following Keith's death, Mr Sapsford said his son had been specifically warned of the dangers of stowing away on a plane.
They had spoken about a Spanish boy who had also died when hiding in a plane's undercarriage only months earlier.
Mr Sapsford died in October 2015 at the age of 93.
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