SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The 15-year-old California boy who survived a harrowing San Jose-to-Maui flight in a jetliner’s wheel well remains at a Honolulu children’s hospital while child-welfare officials work on the details of getting him back to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Meanwhile, an array of news crews Tuesday descended on the teen’s Santa Clara home and high school to get some glimpse into the youth who lived through a feat that the Federal Aviation Administration says has a 76 percent death rate, and is perhaps the only person in recorded history to emerge unscathed.

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