KIRENSK, Russia, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A 14-year-old Russian boy survived an hour-long flight as a stowaway in the landing gear of an airplane, officials said.
The teen, a ward of the state in a Siberian village, escaped from an orphanage, and along with a friend, robbed a local grocery store. He then boarded the AN-24 airliner bound for the city of Kirensk, Russia's TV Novosti reported Tuesday.
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TV Novosti did not report on the friend's whereabouts.
The stowaway was apprehended on arrival in Kirensk by police and taken to a hospital where he was diagnosed with hypothermia and hypoxia, TV Novosti reported.
He will be returned to the orphanage 186 miles from Kirensk, officials said.
