Perhaps you’ve not seen this snap before and you’re already doubting it.

But as haunting as it is, this famous photo of a teenage boy falling from a jumbo jet is in fact real.

On 22 February 1970, Keith Sapsford made the tragic decision to climb into an airplane’s wheel-well to ‘see how to the rest of the world lives’.

The 14-year-old Aussie was desperate for adventure and snuck onto the tarmac at Sydney Airport, sneaking into the plane bound for Japan.