{"id":763125,"date":"2022-01-23T20:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/dutch-police-find-stowaway-on-flight-from-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T20:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:19:19","slug":"dutch-police-find-stowaway-on-flight-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/dutch-police-find-stowaway-on-flight-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch police find stowaway on flight from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/62311a62-24cf-5cd7-b8df-fce28fdd5db2&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x9&#038;resize=2341x1317.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>The Hague \u2013 Police in the Dutch city of Amsterdam discovered a stowaway hidden in the nose wheel of a cargo plane arriving from South Africa, a spokeswoman said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man is believed to have slipped onboard the plane before it left Johannesburg, Royal Dutch Military Police spokeswoman Joanne Helmonds said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;The man was found alive in the nosewheel section of the plane and was taken to hospital in a stable condition,&#8221; she told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Helmonds said police had opened a probe into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is quite remarkable that the man is still alive,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Flight times between Johannesburg and Amsterdam average about 11 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Stowaways on flights to the Netherlands are rare, he adding, noting that previous attempts had involved would-be migrants from Nigeria and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, border police discovered the body of a Nigerian man in the landing gear of a plane arriving at Schiphol airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-1432c3e72af103d7b233440609a93495\">Agence France-Presse (AFP)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hague \u2013 Police in the Dutch city of Amsterdam discovered a stowaway hidden in the nose wheel of a cargo plane arriving from South Africa, a spokeswoman said Sunday. The unidentified man is believed to have slipped onboard the plane before it left Johannesburg, Royal Dutch Military Police spokeswoman Joanne Helmonds said. &#8220;The man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}