Stowaway survives seven-hour flight

Maintenance workers at Los Angeles airport in California have found a man alive in the undercarriage of an Air France jet that had arrived from Tahiti.

Air France officials believe the man -- who's in his late teens or early twenties -- had been hiding in the cramped space that houses the plane's landing gear, but can't explain how he managed to survive a seven-hour flight at an altitude of ten thousand metres -- much higher than Mount Everest.

The man was taken to hospital in Los Angeles suffering from severe hypothermia and dehydration.

He's now in a stable condition. Immigration officials will now have to decide what to do with him.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service