The Tragic Death Of Stowaway Keith Sapsford

According to another newspaper clipping published on Find-a-grave, Sapsford's father, Charles Sapsford, said his son was a "wanderer" who wanted to "keep on the move," saying Keith picked up the travel bug after the family went on an extensive trip the year prior. 

Ironically, the elder Sapsford was a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and told the paper he'd warned his son of the dangers of stowing away — specifically he part about the wheel-well doors opening in mid-air — and the other ways stowaways often die in transit, including from a lack of oxygen and freezing temperatures at high altitudes. 

But like many teenagers before and since, Keith Sapsford did not heed his father's advice. Instead, he ran away from a Roman Catholic Boys' school where he'd been placed by his parents a couple of weeks prior wearing nothing but a t-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops, per The Age. 

It's not clear whether Sapsford was running from or toward something — unfortunately, though, he didn't make it far. 

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