Unidentified attempted stowaway receives 5-month prison sentence

A foreign national who was arrested last November for attempting to climb into a China Airlines (CAL) plane as it prepared to take off at Taiwan's main airport has received a five-month prison sentence for violating immigration and civil aviation laws, a court said Saturday.

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