Dead Body Found in Wheel Well at IAD
Feb 15, 2014, 5:03 pm
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Dead Body Found in Wheel Well at IAD
South African Airways A340 had a corpse found in the wheel well. Stowaway from Johannesburg or Dakar, you think?
I believe it's SAA Flight 207, if I'm correct?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/us/dul...html?hpt=hp_t2
I believe it's SAA Flight 207, if I'm correct?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/us/dul...html?hpt=hp_t2
Feb 18, 2014, 1:15 am
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Just read the wiki article on Stowaways on Wikipedia for some more background info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowaway#Air_travel
Definitely a long flight from Africa :/
On a side note, the linked wiki reference of the kid who mailed himself from NYC to Dallas was a good read.
Definitely a long flight from Africa :/
On a side note, the linked wiki reference of the kid who mailed himself from NYC to Dallas was a good read.
Mar 7, 2014, 3:01 am
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I saw the title and thought it was about Delta announcing a new enhancement.
On a serious note, it is sad that some people are so desperate that they'll try to pull this kind of stunt. RIP
On a serious note, it is sad that some people are so desperate that they'll try to pull this kind of stunt. RIP
Mar 10, 2014, 9:51 am
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It's not always desperation. Sometimes it's simple ignorance. If you don't know that what you're about to do is dangerous, you might do it even with very little incentive.
Mar 10, 2014, 11:25 am
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In this case, what you're about to do isn't just dangerous...it's suicidal. But I agree, from the point of view of someone whose entire life has been spent at ground level, you simply might not know what happens to the atmosphere and temperature as you go up.
Mar 12, 2014, 12:59 am
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Five or six years ago, a body was found in Milton, MA, in line with the usual flight approach path into BOS Logan. Authorities first thought it had been (only, but badly) run over by a black SUV that was seen on the same street in the middle of that night. I think it turned out that the person had stowed away in the wheel well of a US Air jet from Charlotte.