JFK Stowaway

[enigma]

I just saw this on the airwise weekly headline recap. My appologies if it's already been posted.

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2003/12/1072434060.html

I wonder what new TSA procedures this will bring about. If it doesn't , it should.

regards,
enigma

 

[Flying Illini]

There was a TV show, I think it was called "more than human" or something like that, where they interviewed (and then tried to scientifically recreate) a man who hid in the main wheel well of a Canadian airliner from Cubato Toronto. The man survived, amazingly. When they tried to recreate it, all attempts failed in that their "science dummy" that they were using died b/c his blood froze. So the Discovery Channel show concluded that he was "more than human" or just very, very lucky. When they interviewed the man he just said that he was very lucky to have lived. It was pretty interesting to watch, and amazing that someone could survive it. Though he came out of it with frostbite, he was still concious when the plane landed 4 hours later. He was found stumbling around on the ramp by some airport workers and he was taken to a hospital.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Well, if the d a m n TSA would give us back our offline jumpseating priviledges, pilots wouldn't have to resort to hiding in wheel wells.

 

[LJDRVR]

I forget the airline and location, but I seem to recall back in the 60's there was a Korean guy who fell out of a DC-8's gear well on approach when the crew lowered the gear. Dead and frozen.

 

[flyingchicago]

This actually has happened quite frequently... another dead person was found just last year at JFK.

 

[enigma]

This actually has happened quite frequently... another dead person was found just last year at JFK.

These occcurances say a whole lot about security, do they not?

enigma

 

[pipejockey]

Surprise, I just got done listening to the news and another dead body was found in a British Airways jet at JFK I believe.

Does anyone know if they were able to determine the identity of the dead guy in the AA jet last week? Wondering if he had terrorism in mind.

 

[Thedude]

Guess you have never been to Mo Bay then. In MBJ there are only about 8 gates with jet-bridges, the rest walk across the ramp from a boarding hall. Depending on which way the cabin door is from the boarding hall door ...you just might be able to slip past the rampers and sneak to the wheel well area.

I suspect that this guy was probably a cleaner or a ramper to have that access and nobody really notice