Chinese Teenager Flies To Dubai In Cargo Hold of Emirates Flight Dreaming Hefty Earnings

A 16-year old Chinese teen, naming Xu, has been found hiding in the cargo hold of a Dubai bound passenger jet on May 28. The Emirates flight no. EK303 carrying the stowaway has departed from Shanghai on May 27. The teenager has been handed over to the custody of Dubai police upon detection.    

Though initially Emirates hasn’t disclosed identity of the teen, but later Xinhua, the Chinese official news agency has revealed his details. He expresses to remain very comfortable inside the cargo hold and has taken no food during the nine hour flight. Luckily, the passenger jet’s cargo has been pressurized, reports BBC quoting Gulf News.    

The Emirates flight en-route to Dubai is usually operated with the largest aircraft, the double-decker Airbus A380. Dubai is a place of making a lot of money even for the beggars; Xinhua narrates the boy’s fascination about Dubai learning from a mass cherished belief. He has taken the risk of becoming a live cargo in the hope of earning thousands of yuan annually. The Chinese consulate in Dubai has sent its representative to learn detail over the situation, according to a report published in Evening Standard.   

An email statement from Emirates suggests, they are cooperating fully with authorities in Dubai and express limitations in making further comment on matter under investigation. Dubai police as well as Chinese consulate in the Mideast Commercial hub hasn’t responded to the requests for comments, reports The Globe And Mail quoting Associated Press.

The teen has jumped over the fence of the Shanghai airport and climbed into the cargo hold bypassing the on duty security guard. Xinhua furnishes details on how he has become a live cargo quoting a translator appointed by the prosecutors.

Dubai hosts one of the busiest airports in the world and a major destination of tourists and job seekers from all over the world. The UAE government owned airline operates numerous flights in between Dubai and China including two daily round-trip flights to Shanghai.

The ‘Hello Tomorrow’ slogan inherited airline operates mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and is one of the few airlines to operate an all-wide-body aircraft fleet. Emirates is widely acknowledged as the largest operator of A380. 
The Emirates flight en-route to Dubai from Shanghai is usually operated with the largest aircraft, the double-decker Airbus A380. However, the incident is being analyzed as the certain outcome of the sluggish economic growth of China which is believed to increase unemployment rate in the socialist democratic country.