[Unidentified Female:] A 16-year-old boy managed to smuggle himself into the wheel well of a jetliner.
[Unidentified Male:] And a teenager accused of sneaking out to a tarmac riding in the landing gear for five hours.
[Unidentified Female:] And flew multiple hours from San Jose, California, all the way to Maui.
[Unidentified Male:] How that young boy was able to survive at a high altitude for a long period of time. He was able to survive the trip halfway across the Pacific Ocean. Because of the altitude, you have minus 40 degrees C, around minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit. And being 38,000 feet up in the air. Very limited oxygen. He passed out and that, in fact, may have saved his life. Ground crews in Maui found him wandering on the tarmac dazed and confused. Anyone climbing up into it that isn`t familiar with it, who isn`t an engineer, as a stowaway, could be putting their hand on a hydraulic line or electric.
[Lake:] Welcome back, I`m Lauren Lake sitting in for Dr. Drew tonight. I`m here with Samantha Schacher. Now we`re talking about a 16-year-old who caught a flight from California to Hawaii by hiding under the landing gear. Now, look, here`s how we think he got on the plane. OK. You ready for this?
[Schacher:] Animation again.
[Lake:] A real good one. Right? Jumps the fence. Sneaks into the plane`s wheel well. You see him climbing in. Flies all the way to Hawaii, five hours, and is alive when the plane lands. But this is the best part. Guess what he had on him?
[Schacher:] What?
[Lake:] A hair brush.
[Schacher:] What?
[Lake:] That`s all he had on him?
[Schacher:] No wallet. Nothing else. No ID, no money, no passport a hairbrush?
[Lake:] When I land in Hawaii, child, I got to make sure my hair is laid, because I know the cameras are going to be what was he thinking? Now you got to look at this. Now on "AC360", Gary Tuchman, he re-enacted this. So you`ve got to see this part.
[Schacher:] Oh this is better than our animation, for sure.
[Lake:] Thank God for Gary. OK, Gary is going up.
[Schacher:] He`s struggling. Looks like it`s more difficult than I would imagine. Earlier I said that people were reporting that it`s not too difficult.
[Lake:] So I`m a little nerve because when I`m on the plane, it`s all sorts of people waving things all around. Why can`t anybody see him doing this?
[Schacher:] Right. You definitely security breach. That`s for sure. And look at all of the technology in there, all of the equipment in there. If you tamper with that, that can definitely jeopardize the flight of the plane. It could go down.
[Lake:] I mean, how can you even think you need to be up in there? Was it a suicide? I mean, was he going to die if he died and lived if he lived? What would you even what would possess you get inside a cavity like that?
[Schacher:] Right, it`s insane, it`s insane.
[Lake:] That`s a miracle.
[Schacher:] I can`t imagine.
[Lake:] OK, I got to bring back in, too, bring back my legal panel, Mark, Michelle, Loni and we have on the phone CNN correspondent Dan Simon. Dan, I have to ask you first, I want to know the latest on this, because this sounds insane when we`re just talking about it. What would possess this child OK, you run away from home, how about a friend`s house? How about a neighbor?
[Dan Simon, Cnn Correspondent:] It`s a great question. What he told the FBI is that he got into some kind of an argument with his family and, I don`t know, then just wandered to the airport. It`s pretty incredible on a few different levels, what you have here. You have the security issue with the boy hopping a fence at the airport and that raises a whole host of security concerns. If a kid could do it, then a terrorist could do it and could conceivably put a bomb in the wheel well.
[Schacher:] Right. How did he survive, though?
[Simon:] Well, you talk to medical experts and nobody can give you a definitive reason, but this is a little scientific, but one medical expert we spoke with says what probably happened is that his body temperature dropped to the point where he didn`t need much oxygen, almost like a bear in hibernation is the analogy they gave.
[Schacher:] What? What?
[Simon:] So he was unconscious during the flight. We know that. And what`s also incredible is the plane lands and he`s still unconscious for approximately an hour. And at a certain point he just sort of woke up and climbed out of the wheel well. That`s when he was confronted, of course.
[Lake:] This is incredible. Michelle, go ahead. I see you waving your hand. Jump in.
[Fields:] I`ve got a question. When I heard this story, and I think when a lot of people read this story, their initial reaction was "I don`t believe this." Are the authorities showing any skepticism to his story? Or are they just buying it, they`re saying that`s absolutely true?
[Lake:] That`s a great question. That`s a great question. Dan, are people saying this is impossible, unbelievable?
[Simon:] The FBI says it happened. And they`re basing that on two things. One, on the credibility of the kid. They interrogated him, essentially, and they say he`s credible. But number two, they apparently have video surveillance of him at the San Jose airport hopping over this fence.
[Lake:] Wow. Wait, Mark, I want you to jump in here. Because what does this say about security at the airport? What do you think about this?
[Eiglarsh:] Well, here`s what I think on a personal level, OK? When I travel, they make me throw away from my personal carry-on my expensive hair products because it`s an ounce or so over what they deem as safe.
[Lake:] Right.
[Eiglarsh:] Yet a teenager, or a terrorist for that matter, has unbridled access to a crowded airline.
[Schacher:] Mark, do they have you throw away your shaving cream, too?
[Lake:] You know what, Mark`s not lying.
[Schacher:] I like it. I like the scruff.
[Lake:] Mark`s not lying because I`m still a little bit bitter. Last night I had to throw away my hummus. I`m like, do you know how hungry we are on these planes?
[Eiglarsh:] Well, Lauren, hummus is the food of terrorists. That could be a problem. That`s a problem.
[Lake:] This is absolutely insane. Look, this boy, he hasn`t been charged with a crime. Look, I got to say, I think we need to start charging people. This is so scary and such a security breach. And who knows, what if he would have touched something, dislodged something? People`s lives were at risk. I don`t think we should talk this lightly. Loni, what do you think?
[Coombs:] Well, yes. A lot of people are saying we need to send out a message of deterrence so other kids don`t do this. But I think we`re also hearing that the fact he even survived this is pretty much a miracle. My understanding is there`s video of him getting on. They also have video of him coming out in Maui, so they`re saying, OK, he must have done it. But even the fact his body was able to go into this hibernation, another kid did this just flying from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Boston, and he died. And another person did it, he fell out of the wheel well when it opened and died. And this kid was unconscious when they landed.
[Lake:] I got to let Michelle get the last word. Go ahead, Michelle.
[Fields:] I think it`s also important to figure out what this child was running away from. I mean, for you to do something like this, you had to run away from something very extreme. So authorities need to figure out what that is and they need to get this boy some help.
[Lake:] Well, I have a tip. Next time you`re running away from something, run to somewhere where you know where you`re going. There`s no telling where this plane could have gone. I mean, really. All right. Next, a couple is married for 56 years until he shoots her for nagging. A family member joins us exclusively. And later, a judge unloads on a convicted killer. It`s the viral video you`ve got to see. More after this.