Man likely hid in luggage compartment of Air Transat plane
By Mira Oberman. Toronto
Star Staff Reporter. Canada, January 21, 2002
Immigration officials are interrogating a man who appears to have stowed
away in the baggage compartment of an Air Transat flight from Cuba.
The man, apparently a Cuban citizen, was spotted wandering on the tarmac at
Pearson Airport shortly before 3 a.m. said Sergeant Russ Anderson of Peel
Regional police. Medical staff determined the man had suffered no serious
effects from the journey.
"(He) was handed over to immigration," Anderson said, adding that
airport employees found him wandering around near the plane and suspect he was
hiding in the baggage compartment.
Anderson said stowaways are quite rare at Pearson, but not unprecedented.
On February 19, 1990 two stowaways from Trinidad were discovered in the
wheel well of a BWIA International Lockheed L1011. The two men suffered from
hypothermia and were both later deported. | 
