Video: '5 Creepy Photos Taken at the Right Moment'

(Sunday, February 22, 1970, 12:20 p.m. CST) — Keith Sapsford, a 14-year-old who ran away fom a “boys town” to see the world, fell to his death from an airliner today at the Sydney International Airport after trying to stowaway inside the wheel well of the DC-8 jet.

Sapsford had climbed in and was laying on top of a door to the wheel compartment, which opened at an altitude of 200 feet (61 m) when the wheels of the Tokyo-bound Japan Air Lines jet were retracting.

The incident was witnessed by 350 people watching from an observation deck and was photographed by one of the bystanders who was testing a new camera.