A 15-YEAR-old Russian boy suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a 1300km two-hour flight. With temperatures hitting minus 50C and the plane at a cruising speed of 900km/h, the teenager Andrei Shcherbakov collapsed onto the tarmac when the plane landed. He had clung on for the entire flight from Perm in Russia’s Ural region to Vnukova Airport in Moscow. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes. He was taken by ambulance to hospital where doctors are trying to save his hands.
