Body Found in Landing Gear of Delta Flight

(AP)  A body was found inside a wheel well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities Monday were trying to identify the man.

The body of the apparent stowaway was clad only in a long-sleeved, plaid shirt and jeans, police at Narita International Airport said.

A mechanic found the body lying inside the landing gear compartment of the Boeing 777-200 during maintenance after Delta Flight 59 landed Sunday night, police official Zenjiro Watanabe said.

"All we know is that he must have sneaked in just before departure, because it is impossible for him to enter the storage during flight," Watanabe said. Police are trying to identify the man.

He had no visible injuries except frostbite and may have died of hypothermia, Watanabe said. The temperature in that part of the plane falls to about minus 58 degrees during the long flight.

Police were investigating the case both as an accident and a possible crime, Watanabe said.

Delta officials were not immediately available for comment.

Similar cases have occurred in the past. In 2007, a man was found dead in the nose gear wheel well on a United Airlines flight that arrived in San Francisco from Shanghai. He, too, was thought to be a stowaway.

[FauxNews]

It's comforting to know that while we are being high tech scanned and probed by TSA, someone with an IQ of 60 can waltz into a landing gear compartment.

[watshakin]

One thing is for certain, he got a one-way flight on Delta's dime. If that was intent, then he did accomplish something - maybe that was last on his bucket list??

But seriously, how did he make it out onto the tarmac undetected?? That raises a security issue that one can only imagine.

[cowardlyimbecile]

The first of Ahmadinejad's astronauts goes into space.

[dontknowitall]

Where is the Department of Home Security.

[omega42]

Hey we finally made it, we have become the type of 3rd world country that people are willing to risk their lives to escape from.

[louiville35]

Another victim of Hollywood fiction writers, maybe his family can sue?

Along with the hundreds of millions of people who buy into all the phony doom and gloom, fake physics, shoddy science...... producers and directors like James Cameron et.al. spew out to the gullible. I'm sure all the fear mongering shortens the lives of millions as they needlessly suffer from unfounded anxiety.

[FauxNews]

Careful what you say or Rambo will get you, lol.

[Hosheen]

It was probably a "Low cost" fare from Delta. That airline has always treated passengers with contempt. Too bad they couldn't fail during the economic slowdown. I would rather walk or swim than fly Delta.