Body of a man is found still clinging to the landing gear of a plane that had flown to Paris from BRAZIL
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The body of a man has been found in the landing gear of a plane in Paris after the passenger jet touched down in Europe after an 11 hour flight from Brazil.
The stowaway was discovered clinging to the Air France plane's landing gear during maintenance operations on the Boeing 777 at Orly Airport yesterday.
Having arrived from Sao Paulo, the plane had flown to the smaller airport in Paris after touching down at Charles de Gaulle airport two days earlier.
The body is now undergoing examination at Paris' forensic institute so it can be identified, an airport source said.
In a similar case in 2013, a dead stowaway was found in the landing gear of a plane that had landed at Charles de Gaulle from Cameroon.
Several dozen incidents of the passenger jet wheel-wells being used by stowaways have emerged since commercial aviation began.
However, they are usually unsuccessful due to the lack of oxygen and freezing temperatures at the high altitudes passenger jets travel.
Desperate travellers have been found frozen inside the wheel-wells or fallen from the compartment when the plane extends its landing gear.
Pieces of other stowaways are reported to have fallen from the sky into cities and residential areas after the person is crushed by the landing gear during the flight.
In June, the body of a man was found on the roof on an office block in Richmond after he fell from the plane upon its approach to Heathrow Airport.
While he had perished during the 11-hour flight from Johannesburg, a second stowaway survived but was left fighting for his life in hospital.
However, aviation experts said it was impossible the man had survived 11 hours at 35,000ft and at less than -50C, and suggested he was travelling in a different part of the plane to his fellow stowaway.
Dead body of stowaway is found in the landing gear of Air France plane
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/12/dead-body-of-stowaway-is-found-in-the-landing-gear-of-air-france-plane-5617855/
A corpse has been discovered clinging to the landing gear of a plane near Paris.
The man’s body was found by ground crew at the Orly Airport near the French capital yesterday.
The Boeing 777 flew from Sao Paulo in Brazil – where the stowaway is believed to have snuck on – to Charles De Gaulle airport three days ago (a distance of 5,838 miles), before moving on to the smaller airport.
Stowaways often die while hiding in the landing gear of long flights due to the lack of oxygen and the extreme cold experienced in the non-pressurised parts of the plane.
Boeing 777s have a cruising altitude of about 40,000 feet. If you consider that the summit of Mount Everest sits at 29,000 feet, it puts into perspective just how dangerous it is to hide in the landing gear of long-haul flights.
Forensic teams are now examining the body in order to identify the man.
