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Posted on 09/29/2025 7:00:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The body of a stowaway has been found in the landing gear of an American Airlines flight from Europe after it arrived at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, police have confirmed.
Maintenance staff found the body shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday while servicing the aircraft on Hangar Road within the airport division, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) said in a statement.
CMPD Airport Division officers responded and pronounced the individual deceased at the scene.
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In before the “carrion luggage” joke.
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.
The death was likely from hypoxia before the corpse froze.
Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Airlines getting cheaper every day!................
High Altitudia.....................
I’ve never heard of this being successful anywhere.
🤣
This kind of thing definitely counts as “artificial selection”.
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.
Another article I read stated 77% of people trying this die.
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
SO, you’re saying there’s a CHANCE.
And this flight was inbound from Europe.....that person was dead for quite a while
Unintended Consequences of Altitude and Physics
President Trump should warn that this is very dangerous.
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
Slim chance...but an international flight from Europe?......no chance.
A hopper from say Orlando to Miami maybe.
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.
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