{"id":58240,"date":"2020-01-11T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T06:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58240"},"modified":"2020-01-11T14:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T06:06:55","slug":"ivory-coast-child-found-in-plane-undercarriage-was-14-year-old-schoolboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58240","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast child found in plane undercarriage was 14-year-old schoolboy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ABIDJAN, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) —\u00a0A child stowaway\u00a0found dead in the undercarriage of a plane<\/a>\u00a0that landed in Paris has been identified as a 14-year-old Ivorian schoolboy, the transport ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A statement named him as Ani Guibahi Laurent Barthelemy, born on Feb\u00a05 2005 in Yopougon, a rundown district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s economic hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“His identity was confirmed by his parents,” the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CCTV footage shows the child “clung onto the aircraft’s undercarriage as it was preparing for takeoff,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plane, an Air France Boeing 777, took off late at night on Tuesday, arriving at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport early Wednesday after a flight lasting six and a half hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators suspect the child died either from extreme cold –\u00a0temperatures drop to about minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit) at cruising altitudes of between 9,000 and 10,000 metres –\u00a0or from asphyxiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The undercarriage on commercial jetliners is neither pressurised or heated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transport Minister Amadou Kone, quoted by the daily Fraternite Matin, said, “On the video, we see a person dressed in a T-shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We think he got access to the flight area by climbing over a wall. He then hid in bushes and clung on to the aircraft’s undercarriage during takeoff.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government says it is taking steps to beef up security at the airport, including the creation of a buffer zone around the facility. — NNN-AGENCIDES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABIDJAN, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) —\u00a0A child stowaway\u00a0found dead in the undercarriage of a plane\u00a0that landed in Paris has been identified as a 14-year-old Ivorian schoolboy, the transport ministry said. A statement named him as Ani Guibahi Laurent Barthelemy, born on Feb\u00a05 2005 in Yopougon, a rundown district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s economic hub. “His identity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}