Suspected stowaway is found dead in planes landing gear at a North Carolina airport

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Airplane upkeep staff at a North Carolina airport found the physique of a suspected stowaway in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines flight that had lately arrived from Europe, police said.

The physique was found Sunday morning while the aircraft was present process upkeep at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in a assertion that it is investigating the death.

Neither the airline nor police have supplied data about the individual who died, including a potential trigger of death, or said where the flight originated.

The airport said it was deeply saddened by the invention and said it would help the police investigation. American Airlines said it was working with law enforcement on its investigation and directed questions to police.

Experts imagine roughly three-quarters of stowaways don’t survive if they disguise on a aircraft’s undercarriage because of the acute cold and lack of oxygen they expertise as the aircraft reaches cruising altitude.

In January, two our bodies had been found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The our bodies had been found in the wheel properly space during a routine post-flight inspection. The plane had arrived in Fort Lauderdale shortly after flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The jet had been in both Kingston, Jamaica, and Salt Lake City, Utah, earlier that day.

In December, a physique was found in the wheel properly of a United Airlines aircraft after it landed in Maui from Chicago.