Hawaii authorities investigate the appearance of a body in the wheel compartment of an American company plane United Airlines which, on the eve of Christmas Day, took off from the Chicago airport and, after almost 10 hours of flight, landed on the second largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, Maui.
The ground staff of the US airline, as confirmed by the found a lifeless body inside a compartment located “in one of the main landing gears” of the Boeing 787-10 which landed at the Kahului airport and can only be accessed from outside the plane, according to the company.
United Airlines Flight 202 took off from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on the morning of December 24 for a stopover of about four hours. Before, it took off from Sao Paulo, in Brazil. According to the website Flight Aware, Four hours after making the stop in the third city in the United States, the plane landed in Hawaii.
Now, it is being investigated how the victim, whose identity, gender or age is unknown, managed to enter the tire compartment and when he managed to do so, if it could have been on the plane stopover in the US. or in Brazil, country of origin of the flight.
Traveling as a stowaway in any of the holes that are part of the landing gear of an airplane, needless to say, is extremely dangerous. The space is, in some airplanes, smaller than the trunk of a car and many are crushed to death when collecting the wheels on takeoff. According to the United States Federal Aviation Administration, the fatality rate is more than 77%.
Furthermore, according to the American news channel, as the plane ascends, conditions worsen drastically: lack of oxygen can cause loss of consciousness and temperatures, which can drop to 75 or 80 degrees below zero, cause hypothermia and death. freezing of bodies.
Another stowaway on a flight from New York to Paris
This incident joins that of an American stowaway who passed at least 2 security checks at the New York airport to get on a plane to Paris without a ticket, during one of the busiest times of the year: before Valentine’s Day. Thanksgiving.
The woman managed to board flight 264 Delta which departed from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on November 27. The flight attendants discovered it when the plane was already in the air, after having reviewed the complete list of passengers.
