Body found in airplane wheel well at Tokyo airport

[babylonsister]

Body found in airplane wheel well at Tokyo airport
AP

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer



TOKYO – Japanese authorities said Monday they are trying to identify a body found inside one of the landing gear compartments on a Delta Airlines plane flight that arrived in Tokyo from New York.

The body of the apparent stowaway, identified only as that of a male with dark skin, was clad only in a long-sleeved, plaid shirt and jeans, police at the Narita International Airport said Monday.

A mechanic found the body lying inside the landing gear compartment of the Boeing 777-200 during maintenance after Delta Flight 59 from New York landed at Narita on Sunday night, police official Zenjiro Watanabe said.

"All we know is that he must have sneaked in just before departure, because it is impossible for him to enter the storage during flight," Watanabe said.


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[av8rdave]

1. That seems to happen every so often

There are still a lot of people that don't realize that you will not survive anything longer than a very short airline flight if you're in a nonpressurized part of the airplane (which any more, is pretty much just the wheel wells).

What a shame.

[Tesha]

2. "So *THAT'S* what happened to Pinball!" (NT)