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    Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    07/19/2007 10:25:27 AM PDT

    A body was discovered inside the wheel well of a United Airlines Boeing 747 that landed this morning at San Francisco International Airport, according to airport spokesman Mike McCarron.

    Mechanics found what appears to be a man's body inside the wheel well of the nose gear during a post-flight inspection of United Flight 858, which arrived this morning from Shanghai around 8 a.m., McCarron said.

    The San Mateo County Coroner's Office is investigating the cause of death.
    According to the airport's Web site, the plane was scheduled to depart for Los Angeles at 10:45 a.m.

    In January, a stowaway was found dead in the wheel well of a British Airways jet that landed at Los Angeles International Airport. In 2001, the body of a 19-year-old native of Zaire was found inside the wheel well of a US Airways Flight from London to San Francisco.
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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    This sounds like someone trying to enter the cabin through the ladning gear area. How was he able to hang on from take off ?
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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    Quote Originally Posted by Midnight Mike
    The body of a 19-year-old native of Zaire was found inside the wheel well of a US Airways Flight from London to San Francisco.
    Talk about a typo... Since when have we have service from LGW to SFO :roll:

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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    While these stories are generally viewed as sad tales of desperate immigrants, someone should really take a good look at foreign airport security, because if an unauthorized person is able to get into the wheel well of an aircraft, that very same person could easily bring an explosive device with him.

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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    how did he manage to squeeze into the wheel well with the landing gear retracted? there isn't much room in there, and it sure can't be comfortable.
    it is mathematically impossible for either hummingbirds, or helicopters to fly. fortunately, neither are aware of this.

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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    Quote Originally Posted by Midnight Mike
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    Mechanics found what appears to be a man's body inside the wheel well of the nose

    Quote Originally Posted by cancidas
    how did he manage to squeeze into the wheel well with the landing gear retracted? there isn't much room in there, and it sure can't be comfortable.

    I'm thinking when they say it "appears to be a man's body" that he probably didn't neatly fit in the wheel well and probably got pretty mangled when the gear came up.

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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    "Positive rate.... gear up...... ohh the gear is fitting nice and snug tonight or did we get the grease points re greased here?"
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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    I have to say that this kind of occurrence is very interesting to me. It's almost common, and it usually shows a person's desperation to come to the United States for whatever purpose.
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    "Land of the free and the home of the brave"
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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    Quote Originally Posted by AirtrafficController
    This sounds like someone trying to enter the cabin through the ladning gear area. How was he able to hang on from take off ?
    Um... you know its impossible to enter the cabin via the landing gear, right?
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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    Actually not true on certain airplanes. There are compartments. I know for a fact on the MD-11 there is access via the nose gear well on the MD-11 though I am not sure of the remainder. There may well and probabliy likely is on the 747 as well. If memory serves me correct via the MLG well as well on the DC-9 family there is accessability as well. I recall vaugely of it from someone in MX at YX.
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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    Hiss is right. I know people, who strangely look exactly like me, who have done it.
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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil D.
    Hiss is right. I know people, who strangely look exactly like me, who have done it.

    on the -60 we used to do that too. just sit on the mains and the next minute you're sitting behind the stick.
    it is mathematically impossible for either hummingbirds, or helicopters to fly. fortunately, neither are aware of this.

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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    It was only a couple of years ago that the leg (with sneaker still attached) of a stowaway fell out of the gear well of a South African Airways jet on final for the 22s at JFK onto a house in Floral Park.
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    Re: Body found in United Airlines 747 wheel well

    About once a year we get a body in Long Beach generally. I am counting down to the next one. Hopefully not on my property nor the bay behind my house either.
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