“Aviation experts call it a miracle,” says Honolulu’s KHON-TV. “The FBI says a 16-year-old boy stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii, and survived. The boy is expected to fully recover.”

According to The Maui News, the unidentified teen survived the trip “halfway across the Pacific Ocean unharmed despite frigid temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen, FBI and airline officials said.”

The Associated Press writes that FBI spokesman Tom Simon says the “kid’s lucky to be alive.””* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Mark Memmott / NPR:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/21/305495936/teen-survives-flight-to-hawaii-in-jets-wheel-well-fbi-says