Stowaway

A stowaway is a passenger who travels illegally by plane, boat or train and holding in contrast to the black driver, hidden. The term comes from the stagecoach traffic and referred to the traveler who is not seen because he is in hiding because of unpaid fare.

Motives and risks

The reasons for traveling as stowaways can be economically and politically. Blind passengers traveling at high risk. Since they are illegally on board, they must sometimes for days without water or food and thus risk of death. Life is dangerous to travel as a stowaway in wheel wells or cargo compartments of aircraft due to unsecured pressure conditions, lack of oxygen and low temperatures at high altitudes. Since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States the opportunity to be a stowaway was further complicated by checks at airports have been sharpened.

Stowaways are subject to legal prosecution; its penetration into ports, airports and transportation is illegal and will be punished. They also commit carriage by devious. Stowaways that are discovered when crossing borders and have no right of residence must be returned in most countries of the world at the expense of the shipowner or the airline.

Examples

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Movies

• Stowaway ( 1997 film ), Netherlands / Uzbekistan, 1997, R: Ben van Lieshout
• Stowaway has it hard, Great Britain, 1970, R: Ralph Thomas
• Stowaways (1936 ), German Comedy
• Stowaways (1989 ), German - Hungarian film drama