Delta Kills

[Hulud]

Body Found On Delta Plane


ATLANTA -- A body was found Friday in the wheel well of a Delta plane after it landed at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Investigators believe the person was a stowaway from Africa.

The Delta flight arrived from Dakar, Senegal just before 9 a.m. Friday morning.

Emergency crews surrounded the plane as soon as it pulled into the gate because the pilots radioed ahead with their concerns and told officials to be on alert. When the pilots radioed ahead, it appeared they had some idea that something was wrong with the landing gear. We’re not yet sure if they had any idea that someone was in the wheel well.


One passenger who was on the international flight had no idea what was going on. “None of us, none of us saw anything like…when we stopped in the car…there was security on board and stuff but everything seemed pretty normal though,” said Mandy Suptoe.

When the international flight landed and was on the Concourse E Gate, Delta officials say a deceased stowaway was found in the aircraft’s wheel well.

Delta employees, who wanted to remain anonymous, tell Channel 2 it appeared the wheels killed the stowaway.

Delta flight 35 was a 9-hour flight and some employees of Delta say it is virtually impossible to survive in the wheel well. They say it’s minus 40 degrees in there and they say the wheels are still turning in flight.

Airport officials say the death did not interrupt operations. The stowaway’s body has been taken to a local funeral home. Local, state and federal authorities are investigating.

[Ran]

Chicken or beef for you inflight meal? lol

[Brett]

Damn, That what he gets for trying to beat the system and not pay for a ticket!! Whata scumbag!! LOL

[kelly marie]

yeah i read about that this morning.. makes you wonder just how bad his life really was to try something so crazy..

i think something similar to this happened not too long ago.. i wouldnt want to find the remnents... ick

[GTScoob]

The Senegal route has been a PITA for Delta since they started flying there a month or two ago. The first flight had the pilot and co-pilot and a couple flight attendants get terribly ill from the water.

[thinkfast®]

SEE U AT THE CROSSROADS
SO YOU WONT BE LONELY

[Leadfoot_mf]

lolz wonder at what time he realized he made a big mistake.

[Kyle]

I have heard about a lot of people trying that.

[quickdodge®]

lolz wonder at what time he realized he made a big mistake.

Probably bout the time he died. Later, QD.

[Hulud]

lolz wonder at what time he realized he made a big mistake.

2 mins after takeoff, then the wheels started coming up

[Jecht]

LOL, if your going to do something as drastic as this, at least research how cold it is and how little oxygen there is that high in the air.

[TeeJay]

LAUGHING IN REAL LIFE @ THREAD TITLE

[Hulud]

LOL, if your going to do something as drastic as this, at least research how cold it is and how little oxygen there is that high in the air.

it was the landing gear that killed him

[GermanMuscle]

LOL, if your going to do something as drastic as this, at least research how cold it is and how little oxygen there is that high in the air.

i agree but if you have to do something like that to get out of a counrty how would someone research it? probably doesnt have access to anything

[jfman]

The thin air alone kills you right ?

[RISKYB]

should have traded in those skymiles

[GTScoob]

LOL, if your going to do something as drastic as this, at least research how cold it is and how little oxygen there is that high in the air.

Talked to my dad (Delta pilot) last night a little bit about this; he said it happens way more often than anybody would like to think and its always in 3rd world countries where people just want any chance they can to get out. He was up in the flight ops building when they found the body yesterday, he said they had to wait for the body to thaw out before they could remove it and that the cause of death was a combo of freezing to death, suffocating, and being crushed by the wheels.

He said its written very clearly that in 3rd world countries the planes are supposed to keep their speed up when taxi-ing around the runway and to avoid stopping altogether due to stowaways.

[vjizzle]

LOL, if your going to do something as drastic as this, at least research how cold it is and how little oxygen there is that high in the air.

dude his for Senegal Africa.. ppl there dont have food little less computers.. so how do you think he can research something like that??

and also this story is kinda sad if you think about it.... life there must be real shitty for a person to risk his/hers life to come here... honestly most of us dont know how good we have it here.

good post man... +1

[Hulud]

Talked to my dad (Delta pilot) last night a little bit about this; he said it happens way more often than anybody would like to think and its always in 3rd world countries where people just want any chance they can to get out. He was up in the flight ops building when they found the body yesterday, he said they had to wait for the body to thaw out before they could remove it and that the cause of death was a combo of freezing to death, suffocating, and being crushed by the wheels.

He said its written very clearly that in 3rd world countries the planes are supposed to keep their speed up when taxi-ing around the runway and to avoid stopping altogether due to stowaways.

yea happens quite often from what ive heard

[Leadfoot_mf]

"hop ons, oh yeah you will get hop ons." who knows where this quote is from rep for ya.