Thread: Body Found in Airplane Wheel Well at LAX

Now I wonder what their plans were for when they got here? We obviously need to check every nook and cranny of every type of transport that comes into this country. If people are going to these lengths I can only imagine what's going at our ports!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2830813

LOS ANGELES Jan 29, 2007 (AP)— The body of a male stowaway was found Sunday in the wheel well of a British Airways jet at Los Angeles International Airport, officials said.

A pilot discovered the body of the young man in the front right wheel well of the 747-400 during a routine inspection shortly before it was to return to London, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said.

The FBI determined the stowaway likely died in the wheel well, Castles said. Autopsy results won't be available until later this week. Authorities had not identified the victim late Sunday.

The aircraft, British Airways Flight 283, had arrived from London Heathrow Airport at 3:15 p.m. and was scheduled to depart at 5:20 p.m. The airline notified officials of the discovery just before 4:30 p.m., Castles said.

Investigators were trying to determine where the stowaway boarded the plane.

"These aircraft don't go on a fixed route," said Alan Proud, a spokesman for British Airways. "It would have been somewhere else in world before that. That's part of the investigation, to look at where the aircraft had been before."

On Jan. 12, the body of a young African man was discovered in the wheel well of a Delta plane that landed in Atlanta from Dakar, Senegal.

Authorities determined that the man hid in the plane in Senegal and was suffocated to death by the landing gear.

Lucky it was a man and not a bomb.

Investigators were trying to determine where the stowaway boarded the plane.
WHaaat!!! I didn't know you could board a plane threw a wheel well.
Guess they better put a sign on the wheels( please use stairs to board plane!!) in several languages ODDS are they won't speak English!!

What, I didn't know you could board a plane threw a wheel well.