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       Group To Give Scholarship Up To Varsity Level To Boy Who Hid In 
       The Wheel Well
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 28, 2013, 9:46 am
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       Experts in the aviation industry have expressed surprise over
       the survival of a teenager stowaway, DanielOikhena, who hid in
       the wheel well of Arik Air aircraft used for flight W3 544 from
       Benin Airport to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA, Lagos.
       It will be recalled that the teenager apparently sneaked into
       the aircraft main wheel well at the Benin Airport after he had
       beaten security checks at the airport, but he was arrested by
       Arik Air personnel and handed over to Federal Airport Authority
       of Nigeria, FAAN, security upon arrival at the Murtala Muhammed.
       Airport, Lagos when he came out of hiding.
       Speaking on how Daniel could have survived at the nose wheel of
       the aircraft, an aviation expert and Managing Director of
       Belujane Consult, Mr. Chris Aligbe said there was no expert in
       the aviation industry that could givea satisfactory explanation
       to what happened,stressing that the boy¡¯s survival was indeed
       miraculous.
       He further noted that the boy¡¯s survival could be as a result
       of the short distance that the plane flew, noting that from
       Benin to Lagos airport was just 35 minutes of flight time.
       He said that the aircraft did not ascend high into the sky as it
       only flew at 10,000 feet above sea level.
       Aligbe, however, stressed that if the distance was a long haul
       flight, like from Lagos to London, the teenager would have
       frozen to death, stressing that the higher an aircraft ascends
       into the sky, the cooler the nose wheel apartment becomes.
       He said that was the major reason why people that stowed away
       from Lagos to other parts of the world are found dead upon
       arrival at their destination.
       In such cases he said, the airline staff often found the corpses
       of such people on landing.
       It was a miracle
       He said: ¡°There is no aviation experts that can give you a
       satisfactory explanation on the incident. The nostril of the
       aircraft is not designed for anybody to stay in. The boy¡¯s
       survival was miraculously done by God because the aircraft could
       have crushed the boy when the plane was retracting its tyres.¡±
       ¡°Although the hole is a bit wide, it is not meant for anybody
       to stay in. There is no scientific explanation to it, there is
       no aviation expert or technology that could explain how that boy
       survived onboard that aircraft.¡±
       He survived because of his size ¡ªOre
       Also speaking, Chairman of Aviation Round Table, ART, Captain
       Dele Ore, explained that the boy survived because of his size
       and more so, the flight was for a short distance which was not
       more than 10,000 feet.
       Ore said based on the small size of the boy, he was not crushed
       to death on the wheels where he hid himself.
       The ART chairman further said had the flight been a place like
       United States of America, the plane would have flown above
       25,000- 35000 feet, the boy would have died in five minutes
       because the place he hid himself was not a pressurized area.
       Group volunteers to sponsor his education
       Meantime, De Raufs, a volunteer group extolling the virtues of
       Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of Osun State, has volunteered
       to sponsor 15-year-old stowaway teenager, Daniel Oikhena, who
       hidin the tyre compartment of Arik Air flight from Benin to
       Lagos.
       In a statement signed by the Director Generalof the group,
       Comrade Amitolu pootu, the group is ready to give scholarship to
       Daniel up to university level and help him realise his dream of
       travelling by air legitimately.
       pootu said: ¡°Genius and ambitious citizen of our country must
       not be suffocated on the alter of political and bureaucratic
       enforcement. The little boy¡¯s ambition should be nurtured
       through qualitative education, and the group is ready to give
       the boy all the necessary support to make his dream a reality.
       ¡°We sincerely willing to offer him the scholarship to encourage
       thousands of teenagers who are cerebral and ambitious. The
       leaders in Nigeria fail on their part to seethe potential of the
       little boy. Therefore, De Raufs takes up the responsibility to
       safe the future of this great boy and not turning him to
       criminal.¡±
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