It clearly shows how desperate they are to escape.
A capitalist would cash in with the placard idea. Make it a mandatory requirement in all wheel wells. I figure $199 a decal.

 

I think most of these "stowaways" probably thought that they'd be able to climb up through the wheelwell and hop right into a vacant first class seat unnoticed.
Not the most thought out plan.

During the mini gas crisis in nj after hurricane sandy, people were standing in lines waiting to pump gas into handheld containers because cars weren't allowed to fill up. Driving by one of the busier station, I spot the day's Darwin Award winner holding a gas container while smoking a cigarette standing in line.

I try to not be surprised by the stupidity of some people.

 

For them it is no different than jumping a train or bus.

 

At recurrent training they show us "Walk Around Slides" and ask questions like;

"What's that? What are you looking for? What's in tollerance? How many are there supposed to be..." etc.

This year they have a whole new set of pictures. In one of the wheel well picts, there is a (real) Dead African stuffed up in the corner of the wheel well! MX found him when they were doing their inspection. They think he came out of Lagos, based on the ship's history and prior inspections, etc.

A pilot doing a walk around would never have seen him from the ramp, the belly gear doors had to be dropped to see up in there, way in the back corner, and it's dark, and so was he, but MX took the picture and now it's in our walk around 'test' slides!

The instructor just looked at me and said, "What's wrong with that picture?"

Well it is not obvious right away, because of the darkness, but as you scan your eyes around looking for a gear pin flag or something....you see a leg, then an arm, then a head! I said, "What clown crawled up in there for that picture?!"

He said, "It's not a fake, he's real, MX found him."

They have had more than a few dead Africans travel around the world stuffed up there until the next gear inspection, you cannot see up in there with the belly doors closed.

 

I hold my head in my hands.

I am beside myself.

I am abeam myself.