This X-Ray shows a toy Chinese J-20 all-weather stealth fighter in a boy’s stomach after he accidentally swallowed it while pretending to be Godzilla and putting it into his mouth – then swallowing it when he sneezed.

The incident happened when the lad called Xiao Ming was playing with his model plane collection in the family home in Nanning, in Guangxi, China.

His parents told local news media that the boy had put the model aeroplane in his mouth and accidentally swallowed it when he had a sneezing fit at about 7:30am on 28th June.

They said they were surprised as the toy aircraft model was made of metal and was about 3 cm long, which they thought was too large for him to swallow.

Xiao Ming was then taken to the Hospital of Guangxi Medical University by his worried parents, and once there, he was sent to the emergency department. where an examination showed that there was an aeroplane-shaped foreign body in the middle of the child’s abdomen, and he was admitted to the Pediatric Surgery Department.

Specialists decided however that an operation could be avoided by giving him a powerful laxative and monitoring as it moved through his body in the usual way.

They said that they had given him various medications including paraffin oil and had then monitored the plane as it “flew” through his digestive system.

A spokesman for the hospital noted how a series of back-to-back abdominal upright videos recorded the movement of the “J-20” which had first “hovered” in the pylorus, then “flew” through the jejunum and ileum, and finally “dipped” into the ileocecal before reaching the final checkpoint and exiting from the boy’s body on 30th June.