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Azrael
FooJay
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Location: Terra Paradiso
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June 09, 2005 - 10:04 AM |
 
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pieces of a man's body fell from the wheel well of a South African Airways passenger plane bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport Tuesday and landed in the yard of a suburban home, police said.
A U.S. customs inspector discovered the rest of the man's body at 7:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) after Flight 203 landed in New York from Johannesburg, South Africa, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees area airports.
A South African Airways spokeswoman said it appeared to have been a stowaway attempt. She said the plane had stopped in Dakar, Senegal, on its way to New York.
The pilot reported feeling vibrations at takeoff but conducted a check and found nothing amiss, said Nassau County, New York, police detective Kevin Smith.
During the flight, Smith said the pilot felt more "vibrating sensations and heard pounding, but nothing appeared wrong with the plane."
The body parts, which included the right leg, part of the spine and a hip, struck a garage roof of the home in South Floral Park, New York, before landing in the backyard, police said.
Imagine walking down a street minding your own business when BANG! A bloody human spine hits you in the head at over 200km/h?  |
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commando
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June 09, 2005 - 12:07 PM |
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There is not alot of room once the landing gear has retracted.
That happens all the time, people stow away under the landing gear, what they don't realise though is, even if they do find enough space, they will freeze to death. |
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Andreas
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June 09, 2005 - 02:50 PM |
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Yeah, I remember a few years ago they had a similar case in Paris. Gear went down and a stiff fell out, right into some guy's backyard. |
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lucar
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June 09, 2005 - 03:49 PM |
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A frozen body fell out of a wheel well of a plane landing in Pudong last year or the year before. I can't remember where the person was from... |
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GC
The Ginger Prince
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June 09, 2005 - 03:54 PM |
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Someone trying to get into china illegally sounds a but strange, i could think of some better countries to go to first. |
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Azrael
FooJay
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June 09, 2005 - 04:01 PM |
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^maybe they were from some hellhole, backwater place were anywhere else would be paradise...
or simply these people just get on the plane without even knowing it's destination and just "go with the flow" if they don't like the destination, they could always hop on another plane and go somewhere else (assuming they survive the journey that is). |
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lucar
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June 09, 2005 - 04:15 PM |
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Actually, it was surprising to me at the time as well. I remember wondering if they knew where the plane was headed. I am almost tempted to say that they came from London or some other place that you'd think that they'd want to stay. I'll google it now. |
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lucar
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June 09, 2005 - 04:20 PM |
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It was an Air France flight from Paris. Well...that's understandable.
Two Foreigners Fall From Plane in China
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Two people described as foreigners were killed
Thursday when they fell out of an airplane as it prepared to land in
Shanghai, the government said.
The two crawled out of the plane's luggage hold and toppled from the
undercarriage of Flight AF112 from Paris to Shanghai, the official Xinhua
News Agency said, citing a preliminary investigation by police officials.
AF112 was an Air France flight from Paris, the airline said.
The unidentified people fell onto a house in the Laoxiang neighborhood of
Shanghai's Nanhui District, Xinhua said. It was not clear if anyone on the
ground was injured.
Officials did not immediately identify the two foreigners or release their
nationalities.
Shanghai police started an investigation after the plane landed at Pudong
International Airport at 11:05 a.m., an hour later than its scheduled
arrival.
They confirmed the deaths, but refused to provide any details, citing the
ongoing investigation.
An Air France spokeswoman in Shanghai, Zhuang Ying, confirmed that two
people had fallen from an airplane.
``The police haven't made their final conclusions. They're still
investigating,'' she said. ``There were several airplanes in the sky at that
moment.''
All passengers from the plane's main cabin left the plane safely, Xinhua
said. Zhuang said every ticketed passenger on Flight AF112 was accounted for
in Shanghai by the airline, suggesting the two may have stowed away.
The aircraft was held at the airport while the investigation continued,
Xinhua said. Zhuang said Air France canceled Flight 111, which was scheduled
to return to Paris on Thursday afternoon using the same aircraft.
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Bodies of two foreigners who fell from plane in Shanghai `obviously
frostbitten'
BEIJING - The bodies of two foreigners who plunged from an airplane as it
prepared to land in Shanghai were "obviously frostbitten," a
state-controlled newspaper said Friday, raising the possibility that the men
were dead before they fell.
The China Daily newspaper said the men — both white and both about 30 years
old — were suspected of hiding in the baggage hold of Air France Flight
AF112 from Paris. The two had not been publicly identified by Friday
morning. "The skin of each man was obviously frostbitten," China Daily said,
quoting Cai Jun, who it said was one of the first police officers to arrive
at the scene of the fall. The Beijing Morning News said both men had brown
hair and were tall and muscular, and one was wearing sneakers.
State-controlled media carried a photo on several front pages showing a
village house in Laogang, a neighborhood in Shanghai's Nanhui district, with
a gaping gash in the roof, saying it was the scene where the bodies were
found. There was no indication that anyone on the ground was killed or
injured. Flight AF112 from Paris was coming in for landing at Shanghai's
Pudong International Airport on Thursday morning when the two men fell from
the aircraft, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Citing a preliminary
investigation, it said they fell from the plane's undercarriage. Some state
media — which played the incident prominently — suggested the two may have
been smuggled or smuggled themselves onto the plane. "Why would they stow
away?" the Beijing Youth Daily said, quoting an unidentified airport
official as suggesting that had happened. There have been cases in recent
years of people trying to emigrate from developing nations into Europe by
stowing away on airplanes — sometimes in wheel wells, with fatal
consequences. But using such methods to sneak into China from Europe would
be highly unusual. One police officer said police asked for help from a
foreign consulate in Shanghai to help identify the dead, but he refused to
say which country's consulate or provide other details. Air France's
Shanghai spokeswoman, Zhuang Ying, confirmed that two people had fallen from
an airplane and said police believe it was the Air France flight. "The
police haven't made their final conclusions," Zhuang said. "There were
several airplanes in the sky at that moment." All passengers from the
plane's main cabin left the plane safely, Xinhua said. Zhuang said every
ticketed passenger on Flight AF112 was accounted for in Shanghai by the
airline, further suggesting the two may have stowed away. The aircraft was
held at the Pudong airport while the investigation continued, Xinhua said.
Zhuang said Air France canceled Flight 111, which was scheduled to return to
Paris on Thursday afternoon using the same aircraft.
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commando
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June 09, 2005 - 07:26 PM |
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Sorry. Nobody crawls out from the luggage hold, impossilble.
Trust me on this one! |
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Andreas
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June 10, 2005 - 12:13 AM |
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Luggage holds do not just open during flight. And if they had been in the luggage hold, they can never be frostbitten either. |
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