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Couldn't afford a flight: a man sent himself across the ocean by airmail

A certain man once sent himself home in an airmail box. Years later, he looks for friends who then helped him make an incredible journey. The edition told in more detail with the BBC.

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In 1965, Bryan Robson from Cardiff (Wales) was 19 years old. Two of his friends, Paul and John, helped him ship himself from Melbourne, Australia, to London in an air cargo box.

He desperately wanted to return home, but he could not afford the flight.

The journey turned out to be much more dangerous than this man had imagined. It almost cost him his life. But the man survived and was able to tell this incredible story.

As a teenager, Brian took a job with the Victorian Railways under an immigration assistance program in Australia, but he really didn't like it there.

He couldn't just buy a ticket home—he committed to spending two years in the country.

His travel expenses were then paid by the Australian government. He was then told that he would have to pay around £ 800 to reimburse those costs and finance the journey home.

“My salary was about £30 a month, so there was no way to do it,” he explains.

Drawer idea

It was then that he came up with the idea of ​​sending himself home as a load.

Two Irishmen, Paul and John, worked with him and were good friends. He remembers that back in Ireland they went to school together, but forgot exactly where.

Then they often saw each other, so they became close.

Brian needed their help as Paul had access to a typewriter for paperwork to ship as cargo.

At first, friends thought he was crazy. For a week he had to convince them to help him.

“John agreed, but Paul didn’t want to do it,” he recalled.

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Friends agreed that he would not tell anything about their participation if there were problems.

They helped him climb into a wooden box the size of a small refrigerator. He brought pillows, a flashlight, a suitcase and two bottles - one for water, the other for urine.

The man could not stretch his legs and even turn around.

"This side up"

The journey turned out to be harder and more dangerous than he could have imagined.

The flight to London was supposed to be direct, but the cargo was transported on a slow route through Los Angeles, California.

Brian realized very soon that the word "this side up" "does not mean that it will be paid attention to.

When the plane landed in Sydney, he was left standing on his head for 22 hours, and he suffered from unbearable pain, even fainted.

But Brian didn't give up. He was back in the air, but not directly in the direction of the United Kingdom.

"There is a body"

“I spent five days in the box and ended up in a cargo hangar. Thought I was in London,” he said.

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“I could move my hand to get to the flashlight, but my fingers were frozen, so I dropped it,” Brian recalls. “I heard voices, they asked: “What is happening there?” That's when I realized that the two men were not speaking with an English accent, but with an American one. One of them looked through the hole in the box - and our eyes met. He jumped back and said, “There’s a body.” Then they both disappeared. And an hour later all hell broke loose: FBI, CIA, airport security, ambulance.”

During his journey in a wooden box, he was completely stiff.

I would like to buy them a drink

Brian was taken to the hospital, where he was gradually able to move his limbs again.

The Americans did not bring charges against him, but sent him home to London on a plane - already in the cabin.

Now, at the age of 76, he has written a book about his great adventure, Escape in a Box. Looking back, he can't believe he came up with such an idea.

“It was stupid. If my children tried to do this, I would kill them,” says Brian. “But those were different times.”

Now the man would like to meet his Irish friends again.

He wrote to them from Wales upon his return, but received no reply.

“If we met again, I would say: I’m sorry I got them into this; I really missed them when I came back,” Brian said. “I’d like to buy them a drink.”

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