Posted on 12/11/2010 7:13:58 AM PST by outpostinmass2
Tragic. But that's why they warn you to have your seat backs in the upright position on landing.
“Delvonte Tisdale was often seen in dress uniform or wearing ROTC sweatshirts. In a paper for a class, he wrote that he wanted to be a high-ranking Marine officer. The teenager spent up to 12 hours a week taking classes on the history of the Air Force and the science of flight and participating in ROTC activities, such as marching and volunteer work.”
Doesn’t sound like a democrat supporter to me. He was also too young (17) to vote.
16 year olds can vote?
What a ridiculous, racist comment to a tragic death. The kid was 16 yrs old. I doubt he voted for anybody...............
I’m a leaving on a jet plane ~
probably died from hypoxia and freezing temps enroute...they open the doors.... and out drops Mr. Tisdale
The unfortunate consequences of watching “Jackass” on a regular basis...
He was dead long before he fell.
Had to be.
However, here's the scariest part of the whole article:
In February of this year, a frozen body was found in the wheel well on a flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York when it landed at Narita International Airport in Japan, but it was later discovered that he did not actually stow away on the plane in New York. In fact, his body had been undetected in the wheel well since he stowed away Dec. 12, 2009, during a flight from Lagos, Nigeria, to New York.
What the heck went on here? As a former crew chief, I guarantee you I wouldn't be nissing a body in the wheel well of my jet one time, much less for a couple of months.
science of flight.....
That’s interesting....
May be some strange motivation behind this one like wanting to experience flight from the outside of the plane or something.
He doesn’t sound like a hobo or something, but a decent kid.
He was 16 years old, jackass.
See post 4.
Sounded like a great kid......why the heck he would do this is strange...
gutwrenching story at that link...I guess the only good thing we can see in this story is that he didn’t fall onto someone else...certainly could have been fatal to someone on the ground..
Why stow away in a wheel well? No windows, no life support systems, no sound proofing, and gear operated by a hydraulic system designed to put that gear in the well despite a human stowaway. I don’t even know if there is room in there for a human. I would seriously doubt it as extra space means weight and planes are built for the least weight possible. If he wasn’t crushed by the gear, the hypoxia would have done the job.
Dumb move by the kid, but the really scary part is that he was able to breech security. He could just as well been a terrorist attaching a bomb to the plane’s wheel well. Meanwhile the TSA is making little old ladies and kids go through their nudie scanners just to keep us safe.
I think the authorities should mandate seatbelts in the wheel wells of all commercial aircraft. This tragedy could have been prevented, and if even a single life is saved ....
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