By Amanda Musa | CNN
Officers in Hawaii are investigating after a physique was found within the wheel nicely of a United Airways aircraft that flew from Chicago to Maui on Christmas Eve.
“Upon arrival at Kahului airport in Maui on Tuesday, a body was found in the wheel well of one of the main landing gears on a United aircraft,” the airline stated in a press release to CNN Wednesday.
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The physique was found on a Boeing 787-10 plane, the assertion added. Flight UA202 arrived in Hawaii Tuesday afternoon and was on time, in response to flight monitoring web site, FlightAware.com.
“The wheel well was only accessible from outside of the aircraft,” United Airways stated. “At this time, it is not clear how or when the person accessed the wheel well.”
United is working with native regulation enforcement, the assertion stated. Police on Maui didn’t instantly reply to CNN’s request for extra data.
It’s unclear how the physique ended up within the aircraft’s wheel nicely or how the particular person died.
Hiding in a aircraft’s wheel nicely is the commonest methodology utilized by stowaways of their sought-after journeys. Over 77% of people that have tried to hitch an unlawful experience on an plane have died, the Federal Aviation Administration stated.
Stowaways usually get crushed when the touchdown gear retracts, as there’s not a lot room; in lots of plane, the house is even smaller than the trunk of a automobile.
Because the flight reaches increased altitudes, situations worsen. Oxygen ranges turn into extraordinarily low and stowaways battle to maintain aware. In the course of the flight, temperatures outdoors an airplane can drop dramatically, reaching as little as 75 or 80 levels beneath zero, which isn’t conducive to blood circulate. Stowaways threat frostbite and even hypothermia.
CNN’s Nicole Chavez contributed to this report.
