A 22-year-old Kenyan man was found alive in the front wheel section of a cargo plane after the aircraft completed an 11-hour flight to Europe. The man was found in the nose wheel of the cargo plane, which flew from South Africa to Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam, Dutch military police said in a translated statement. "[He] is doing well under the circumstances and has been transported to the hospital," police said in a tweet. In an update, police said they are looking into whether the incident is a case of migrant smuggling. "This is definitely very unusual that someone was able to survive the cold at such a height – very, very unusual," military police spokeswoman Joanna Helmonds told Reuters. The man has since applied for asylum, police also said. In comments to the New York Times, Robert van Kapel, a spokesman for the military police, said he was unsure about the circumstances around the man's asylum application. Van Kapel believed the man boarded the aircraft in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, where it stopped en route to Amsterdam from Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. While stowaways on flights are rare, those who managed to sneak into an aircraft's wheel well will face freezing temperatures and low oxygen levels, increasing their risk of hypothermia and hypoxia. They can also become crushed by the plane's equipment, or fall from the plane itself.