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

foxbusiness.com ^ | September 28 | By Emma Bussey

[Pearls Before Swine]

In before the “carrion luggage” joke.

"Splutt!" Keyboard replacement territory.

[Kartographer]

Those ‘Deadeye’ flies can be real ‘killers’!

[Organic Panic]

I am going to go out on a limb here and guess the idiot in question was a very uneducated individual from the dark continent who thought it would be just as easy to make it to America in a wheel well as it was to make it to Europe in a rubber raft across the Mediterranean.

[Organic Panic]

I am going to go out on a limb here and guess the idiot in question was a very uneducated individual from the dark continent who thought it would be just as easy to make it to America in a wheel well as it was to make it to Europe in a rubber raft across the Mediterranean.

[V_TWIN]

I’m surprised the FAA doesn’t require Airlines to put cameras in the wheel wells.....a quick check before taxi to tarmac could save lives.

[dinodino]

Now is the time for a Jet2 holiday

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“The body of a stowaway has been found in the landing gear of an American Airlines flight from Europe...”

Real man of genius.

[ridesthemiles]

HYPOXIA

[Rinnwald]

President Trump should warn that this is very dangerous.

Now that's pretty funny. But, do you really want Karens randomly falling out of wheel wells? Talk about trauma for those on the ground.

[TexasGator]

“Darwin Award WINNER!”

Nominee. Winner is not announced till end of year.

[TexasGator]

“Darwin Award WINNER!”

Nominee. Winner is not announced till end of year.

[TexasGator]

“Darwin Award WINNER!”

Nominee. Winner is not announced till end of year.

[KobraKai]

So, if you had an oxygen tank, the likelihood of survival would be high?

[TexasGator]

“I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.”

Many have. Latest was last week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel-well_stowaway#List_of_wheel-well_stowaways

[Dr. Franklin]

So, if you had an oxygen tank, the likelihood of survival would be high?

Higher than without one, but hypothermia would also set in rather quickly causing death soon enough.

[Dr. Franklin]

So, if you had an oxygen tank, the likelihood of survival would be high?

Higher than without one, but hypothermia would also set in rather quickly causing death soon enough.

[EVO X]

Kabul is one of the highest altitude capitols in the world at ~6K feet. If the kid was from a village higher up in the Hindu Kush range, his body metabolism would be better adjusted for high altitudes and could withstand the “death zone” for a relatively short flight.

[crusty old prospector]

If you had an oxygen tank and warm clothing, you could do it. Mount Everest is around 29,000’.

[Dr. Sivana]

I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.

I heard it working . . . ONCE.

The young man was in pretty bad shape.

[rlmorel]

Or getting crushed by the gear.