Body Found in Wheels of Plane Coming from Europe to the United States
A body of an unidentified person was found on Monday inside the wheel well of an "American Airlines" plane shortly after it landed at "Charlotte Douglas" International Airport coming from Europe.
According to the British newspaper "Metro", workers discovered the body "during routine checks" shortly after the flight landed around 9 AM on Sunday.
Reports indicated that the plane had made a transatlantic flight before landing in North Carolina. Immediately, the "Charlotte-Mecklenburg" police announced the "death of an unidentified person at the scene".
The police added in their statement that "an investigation into the death has been opened, and anyone with information is asked to contact local authorities".
This is not the first incident of its kind, as this horrifying discovery comes just weeks after a similar incident in January. At that time, "the flight crew found the bodies of Jamaican teenagers Jake Aniloz Lucy (18) and Elvis Burke Castillo (16) during a maintenance check after landing at 'Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood' International Airport".
The plane belonging to "JetBlue" had transported the stowaways without anyone's knowledge, as "it remains unclear how they got into the wheel well, or when, as the plane traveled between Jamaica and several other destinations in the days leading up to the discovery of their bodies".
There was also a third incident last December, "a body was found in the wheel well of 'United Airlines' flight 202, which was headed from Chicago to Kahului Airport in Maui", highlighting the deadly risks of attempts to stow away in these parts of aircraft.
