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Originally Posted by Livia
It gets as cold as minus 40-50 at height, that's without the mechanism maybe crushing him as the wheels lift and the high chance of falling. As he worked at an airport I'm going to assume he had an idea of how it would go, so I'm going 1% for desperation (although some immediately assume this) and 99% for stupidity.
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He surely must be miscellaneous airport staff (baggage handling maybe?) and not aircraft maintenance or an engineer or anything like that because, as you say, someone with any knowledge of aircraft would know that this is unsurvivable without a tonne of thermal equipment and an oxygen supply. If he's unskilled staff it would sadly be down to a lack of education and understanding of the conditions at altitude rather than stupidity pre se.
On the positive side; he would have passed out pretty quickly from the dropping pressure and lack of oxygen, so I doubt he suffered for long.
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