Teen Hid In A Wheel of A Boeing 767 For SIX Hours In Hawaii-bound Plane 'so he could fly to Africa to see his mother'

According to a report on Dailymail, The teen stowaway who survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii after hiding in the wheel well of a Boeing 767 was on airport grounds for six hours before the plane took off, it has emerged.
The 15-year-old boy, who has not been named, climbed over the fence at the airport in San Jose just after 1am on Sunday and the Hawaiian Airlines Flight took off at 7.55am, a federal official told CNN.
It is not known when he climbed into the plane's wheel well, but the aircraft was at the airport at 1am. He was found that afternoon on the tarmac in Maui, having miraculously survived the flight.
The teen may have been trying to get to Africa to see his mother, Hawaii News Now reported. He was living with his father, stepmother and her children in Santa Clara.

After he was found on the tarmac in Maui on Sunday, he told the FBI he had run away after arguing with his family - but on Monday, his sister denied this outside their home.
And neighbors agreed that version of events did not fit the quiet family who moved into the rental home on the tree-lined suburban street in Santa Clara six months ago.
'They are very quiet, very private,' Amy McGinn told KTVU. 'When I heard there was an argument, that was surprising, because I never hear anything, like loud noises from the house.'

McGinn added that the boy's father drives a taxi, while the stepmother is mostly seen taking her five children to and from school.

The family did not answer the door to reporters, but a woman who claimed she is the older sister of the boy told NBC that he did not have an argument with his family.

She added that her brother was physically 'OK' after the trip, but declined to say more.

The 15-year-old boy scaled a perimeter fence at San Jose Mineta International Airport on Sunday and climbed into the wheel well of a plane with no knowledge of where the plane was heading.

The FBI has determined that the boy did not have any plans to threaten civil aviation, but authorities are questioning how the teenager breached multiple layers of security.

'This was not something he planned out,' FBI Special Agent Tom Simon said. 'My impression is that he ran for the first flight he saw... His intention was to run away from home.'

Simon said the teen climbed into the left rear wheel well of the first plane he saw in San Jose.

'He got very lucky that he got to go to Maui but he was not targeting Maui as a destination,' he said.

He passed out in the air and didn't regain consciousness until an hour after the plane landed in Hawaii, Simon said. When he came to, he climbed out of the wheel well and was immediately seen by airport personnel who escorted him inside where he was interviewed by the FBI, Simon said.

It was not immediately clear how the boy stayed alive in the unpressurized space, where temperatures at cruising altitude can fall well below zero and the air is too thin for humans to stay conscious. An FAA study of stowaways found that some survive by going into a hibernation-like state.