@rasterman @matrix I read a good book by John Ringo called 'Ghost' that early on has the main character hide inside the landing gear compartment for an aircraft (he wasn't intending to hang out there; he expected to find a maintenance access further into the aircraft).
Maybe they read that book.
Or, same guy:
>It’s despair and terror but also I think the feeling that others will stop and help us. We are biologically geared to trust other human beings will not let us die when we place our lives in their hands
a problem with this plan is that by the time they're in the air, nobody in the aircraft even knows that anyone's hanging on.