In a case that brings back memories of the August 24, 2013 narrow escape of Nigeria’s Daniel Oikhena, a 16-year-old American boy has survived an extraordinary journey hidden in the wheel well of a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii.

A spokesman for Hawaiian Airlines said airline staff noticed the boy after the plane landed yesterday morning.

“He was questioned by the FBI and given a medical screening and was said to be in a stable condition,” says a BBC report, adding: “The boy is reported to have run away from home and jumped over a fence at San Jose airport to get to the plane.”

News Express recalls a similar incident in which 13-year-old Daniel Oikhena, a Junior Secondary School (JSS) One pupil in the Edo State capital, Benin, on Saturday, August 24 last year, illegally travelled to Lagos hidden in the wheel compartment of an Arik Air flight.

He was discovered after the flight landed and handed over to security agencies. The adventurous lad from a broken home has since been adopted by government.

•Photo, courtesy of BBC, shows the American boy taken into an ambulance after his miraculous survival in a plane wheel well.