Boy, 9, sneaks onto plane and travels 2700km without parents

A little boy has gone on a miraculous journey, after he snuck out of bed and onto a flight that took him on a 2700km journey across the country.

A nine-year-old globetrotter has been reunited with his family after he snuck onto an aeroplane and travelled more than 2700km across the country alone.

Brazilian boy Emanuel Marques de Oliveira was reported missing by his parents in the city of Manaus on Saturday morning.

Emanuel’s mother, Daniele Marques, told authorities her son was snuggled in his bed when she woke in the early hours of the morning. However, when she went to check on him again two hours later, he had vanished, New York Post reports.

“I woke up at 5.30am, went to his room, and saw that he was sleeping normally,” she told Newsflash. “Then I fiddled with my mobile phone a little and got up again, at 7.30am, and that is when I realised that he was no longer in his bedroom and I started to panic.”

The aspiring traveller reportedly snuck out of his house and made his way to a nearby airport, where he boarded a plane without a ticket.

Emanuel had googled, “How to get on a plane unnoticed,” according to local media reports.

Emanuel Marques de Oliveira, 9, snuck into a Brazilian airport and boarded a plane without a ticket over the weekend. Authorities are trying to learn how the incident occurred. Picture: Newswire

The boy travelled 2700km on a Latam flight from Manaus, in the northwest of Brazil, to the city of Guarulhos, in the southeast state of Sao Paulo.

His distraught mother spent the whole day wondering where her child was before finally learning that Emanuel was safe and well on the other side of the country.

Manaus airport management is investigating how the boy was able to board a plane with no travel documents and no luggage.

Local police have also requested security camera images from the airport and have initiated an investigation, according to local media reports.

They say there is no history of violence in the family and that the intrepid boy had simply decided to travel to Sao Paulo to visit some of his other family members.

Local police have requested security camera images from the airport and have initiated an investigation, according to local media reports. Picture: Newsflash

The cross-country trip comes just two years after a similar story from the US made headlines around the world.

Back in January 2020, Sade Subbs, 15, made it through a TSA checkpoint at the Orlando International Airport with a stranger’s boarding pass.

She was later apprehended, telling authorities that “she just wanted to fly in an aeroplane”.

This article originally appeared on New York Post and has been republished with permission