WildIrish
07-27-2004, 02:37 PM
Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Posted: 5:02 AM EDT (0902 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal officials are investigating how a man managed to hide inside a crate that was flown by a major cargo carrier from New York to Dallas, Texas.
He decided to "ship himself rather than pay for a ticket," said Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Suzanne Luber.
He secured himself in the crate, apparently with some help, along with his computer and some clothes and shipped himself through cargo carrier Kitty Hawk Inc., which said it was told by the shipping firm, Pilot Air Freight, that the crate was loaded with computer monitors.
The crate, marked as containing computer equipment, was picked up at a company called Metrotech in the Bronx, New York, and driven to John F. Kennedy International Airport, and then to Newark, New Jersey, where it was placed on a Kitty Hawk cargo plane, she said.
"The plane actually went to Buffalo. From Buffalo it went to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There was a change of planes onto another Kitty Hawk cargo plane, and he ended up at DFW [Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]," Luber said.
Carl Smith, assistant chief of the De Soto Police Department, said that when the deliveryman went to remove the box from the truck he noticed a person inside.
Authorities believe he had moved something he had been using to cover himself, so the driver was able to see him through a slit in the crate.
"At that time, the man kicked one side of the crate out, crawled out, got his box, and walked around to the back of the house," Smith said.
The driver contacted police.
A spokesman for Kitty Hawk Cargo added, "This is a very unusual incident."
CNN correspondent Patty Davis contributed to this report.
I told them to write FLORIDA on the Destination line! Man was I pissed!
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal officials are investigating how a man managed to hide inside a crate that was flown by a major cargo carrier from New York to Dallas, Texas.
He decided to "ship himself rather than pay for a ticket," said Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Suzanne Luber.
He secured himself in the crate, apparently with some help, along with his computer and some clothes and shipped himself through cargo carrier Kitty Hawk Inc., which said it was told by the shipping firm, Pilot Air Freight, that the crate was loaded with computer monitors.
The crate, marked as containing computer equipment, was picked up at a company called Metrotech in the Bronx, New York, and driven to John F. Kennedy International Airport, and then to Newark, New Jersey, where it was placed on a Kitty Hawk cargo plane, she said.
"The plane actually went to Buffalo. From Buffalo it went to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There was a change of planes onto another Kitty Hawk cargo plane, and he ended up at DFW [Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]," Luber said.
Carl Smith, assistant chief of the De Soto Police Department, said that when the deliveryman went to remove the box from the truck he noticed a person inside.
Authorities believe he had moved something he had been using to cover himself, so the driver was able to see him through a slit in the crate.
"At that time, the man kicked one side of the crate out, crawled out, got his box, and walked around to the back of the house," Smith said.
The driver contacted police.
A spokesman for Kitty Hawk Cargo added, "This is a very unusual incident."
CNN correspondent Patty Davis contributed to this report.
I told them to write FLORIDA on the Destination line! Man was I pissed!