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Ewwww!
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NARITA, Japan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A man's frostbitten body was found inside the landing gear compartment of a Boeing jetliner after the plane flew from New York to Japan, officials said.
A maintenance worker at Narita Airport discovered the body Sunday.
Police had yet to release the man's identity or cause of death, The Mainichi Daily News reported Monday.
The man's body was found in the compartment of Delta Flight 59 after the 193 passengers and crew disembarked and the aircraft was towed to a freight sector, Kyodo News reported Monday.
The man was wearing jeans and a shirt and showed signs of frostbite believed to have occurred in the unpressurized compartment while the jetliner was in flight, Narita Airport Police said.
In 2003 at Narita Airport, a man's body was found in the landing gear compartment of a Boeing jetliner that had flown from Hong Kong.
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Usually this happens on flights TO the US, not from. It is sad when a person will risk almost certain death to get out of a place.
I actually got to go to Haiti a couple days ago. The airport was decently secure and we didn't have any issues w/ stowaways. We took extra catering and water down and I got to go around and hand it out, which was really neat. I was really hoping to get one of these trips, but I was just working, if I wasn't working somebody else would have been and done the same thing. Very neat experience though.
We were concerned about any potential stowaway issues, but luckily didn't happen.
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You got to do a Hatian field trip. That's pretty cool. Our ships, the MPS vessels I worked on carried out humanitarian aid. Seems I got out of the program when the "Real" aid started to happen. What I mean by that was like the Somalian "RESTORE HOPE" and the Typhoon victims in the Indian Ocean areas , and quake victims of Philippines. Though I got a good one at Desert Storm, and got exercises in Korea and Honduras, none really involved "HUMANITARIAN AID". It was war and war training exercises. I always hear that Haiti was an interesting beautiful country. Poor as hell but otherwise, pretty. I had some interest of going up to the CAP HATIAN area north of Haiti, and read alot about TORTUGA ISLAND that was a pirates sanctuary during the Spanish Main days. I also like to read about the Marine Corps history involvement in Haiti as their "Banana Wars" days in the early 1900's. We don't fly there and it would seem to take quite some effort to go there but that is not one of my top priorities for now. But like yourself going on a field trip, that would have been an interesting experience. Good for you ColoAvs19. You made it to a place I never been. If they give you a certificate of participation in humanitarian aid for Haiti, get it framed. They gave those out for guys taking troops to Kuwait during the war with Iraq. I got a certificate with the MPS program signed by a USMC Colonel during Desert Storm. It listed my name along with all the countries in the coalition. I have it some 20 years later framed up.
