Stowaway found dead in American Airlines plane landing gear compartment at Charlotte airport

foxbusiness.com ^ | September 28 | By Emma Bussey

[VTenigma]

In before the “carrion luggage” joke.

[woodbutcher1963]

Darwin Award WINNER!

There have been on rare occasions someone who actually survived doing this. I am not sure how though. Maybe the aircraft did not go as high of altitude.

[Dr. Franklin]

The death was likely from hypoxia before the corpse froze.

[bgill]

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

[Red Badger]

Airlines getting cheaper every day!................

[Red Badger]

High Altitudia.....................

[Larry Lucido]

I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.

[SunkenCiv]

🤣

[SunkenCiv]

This kind of thing definitely counts as “artificial selection”.

[FLT-bird]

Why do these idiots think they can survive in an unpressurized compartment at over 30,000 feet? Its typically minus 50 to minus 70 degrees and there’s nowhere near enough oxygen to live.

[V_TWIN]

Another article I read stated 77% of people trying this die.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, if TikTok dip****s got aboard this one, as it were, we could see more successful (short) trips. 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel-well_stowaway

[woodbutcher1963]

SO, you’re saying there’s a CHANCE.

[V_TWIN]

And this flight was inbound from Europe.....that person was dead for quite a while

[drSteve78]

Unintended Consequences of Altitude and Physics

[V_TWIN]

President Trump should warn that this is very dangerous.

[PGR88]

I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.

I remember a young man successfully doing it from Nigeria or Afghanistan to London years ago.

While searching, I found this article from just six days ago. It's a young man's game.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp987j57lxko

[V_TWIN]

Slim chance...but an international flight from Europe?......no chance.

A hopper from say Orlando to Miami maybe.

[Campion]

It has been, but is very risky. The original case that popularized this was that of a Cuban kid who stowed away on a flight from Havana to Madrid. He was unconscious and very cold when he arrived, but he survived.