Japanese authorities have found the body of a man in the landing gear of a Delta airliner that arrived in Tokyo from New York.
The man, who was of dark complexion and dressed only in blue jeans and a long-sleeved shirt, was carrying no passport or personal belongings.
A mechanic found the body in the landing gear bay of the Boeing 777 after Delta Flight 59 landed at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport at about 6:05 p.m. Sunday, a Chiba prefecture police spokesman said.
“Doctors say he probably froze to death and that he suffered a shortage of oxygen at an altitude of more than 10,000 metres (about 30,000 feet),” said another police official, Narita airport station spokesman Yoshimi Ichihara.
“We found no passport, no bag and no personal belongings. If he carried any luggage, it must have all dropped out when the aeroplane opened up the hatch of the landing gear bay above the ocean before it landed.”
Japan was seeking help from US police to identify him, he said.
By: Bmused55 - 9th February 2010 at 07:25
No one and no country is infallible.
By: DovinR - 9th February 2010 at 04:30
What if this guy was al qaeda and had a suicide belt ???
US gives such a hard time to other countries about air safety, and now they have let this happen!!!
For all you know this was a trial run…
By: steve rowell - 8th February 2010 at 23:07
When are stowaways going to learn that the wheel wells are not pressurized nor heated? Better to hide in the E&E compartment and get fried.
They’ll never learn..it’s been going on for as long as i can remember
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/print.main?id=4232003
By: Arabella-Cox - 8th February 2010 at 21:23
When are stowaways going to learn that the wheel wells are not pressurized nor heated? Better to hide in the E&E compartment and get fried.
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February 8, 2010 at 9:14 pm