{"id":80060,"date":"2025-12-11T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80060"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:25:22","slug":"stowaway-attempt-foiled-as-man-hides-in-aircraft-tyres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/11\/stowaway-attempt-foiled-as-man-hides-in-aircraft-tyres\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowaway Attempt Foiled as Man Hides in Aircraft Tyres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drama unfolded on Wednesday at an airport when a man, Segun Martins, attempted to board an aircraft by hiding between its landing gear tyres, reportedly hoping to travel to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Airport security spotted him during a routine inspection just before takeoff and immediately apprehended him.<\/p>\n<p>Martins confessed he believed the aircraft was bound for the U.S. and tried to stow away to leave the country unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody for questioning, while authorities launched an investigation into how he accessed the restricted airside area. Flight operations were briefly delayed for additional security checks.<\/p>\n<p>Officials warned that such stowaway attempts are illegal and life-threatening, citing risks of extreme cold, oxygen deprivation, and falling during takeoff or landing.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has renewed calls for stricter airport security and public awareness on the dangers of stowing away on planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Drama unfolded on Wednesday at an airport when a man, Segun Martins, attempted to board an aircraft by hiding between its landing gear tyres, reportedly hoping to travel to the United States. Airport security spotted him during a routine inspection just before takeoff and immediately apprehended him. Martins confessed he believed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80062,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80060\/revisions\/80062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}