9-year-old Brazilian Boy Hops on to Flight Unnoticed, Flies 1,600 Miles From Home

A nine-year-old boy sneaked onto a plane without the knowledge of his parents and flew away around 1,600 miles from his home. This incident, which nearly gave the boy’s parents a heart attack, took place in Manaus, Brazil.

According to a report in the Mirror, the boy, Emanuel Marques de Oliveira, had googled, “how to get onto a plane unnoticed” before he embarked on the adventure. The case threw the police and airlines into a tizzy after the boy was reported missing from his home.

The boy’s mother, Daniele Marquis, reported him missing on Saturday, February 26. She said that she did not notice that he was missing before Saturday morning. “I woke up at 5:30 am, went to his room, and saw that he was sleeping normally,” she said.

“Then I fiddled with my mobile phone a little and got up again, at 7:30 am, and that is when I realised that he was no longer in his bedroom and I started to panic,” she added.