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[BillyVance 35]

There will never be a shortage of dumb fucks...

Body Found in Wheel Well of Jet at LAX
AP
LOS ANGELES (Jan. 29) - The body of a male stowaway was found Sunday in the wheel well of a British Airways jet at Los Angeles International Airport, officials said.

A pilot discovered the body of the young man in the front right wheel well of the 747-400 during a routine inspection shortly before it was to return to London, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said.

The FBI determined the stowaway likely died in the wheel well, Castles said. Autopsy results won't be available until later this week. Authorities had not identified the victim late Sunday.

The aircraft, British Airways Flight 283, had arrived from London Heathrow Airport at 3:15 p.m. and was scheduled to depart at 5:20 p.m. The airline notified officials of the discovery just before 4:30 p.m., Castles said.

Investigators were trying to determine where the stowaway boarded the plane.

"These aircraft don't go on a fixed route," said Alan Proud, a spokesman for British Airways. "It would have been somewhere else in world before that. That's part of the investigation, to look at where the aircraft had been before."

On Jan. 12, the body of a young African man was discovered in the wheel well of a Delta plane that landed in Atlanta from Dakar, Senegal.

Authorities determined that the man hid in the plane in Senegal and was suffocated to death by the landing gear.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[DougH 270]

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...and was suffocated to death by the landing gear.

Basically he was crushed. Should have read the crush zone warning labels!!!

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[Gato 0]

The wheel wells are not pressurized, and airliners typically cruise at 30,000 or so feet AGL. Combine this with the cold temperatures and trans-continental flight times, and you get hypoxia, frostbite, shock, suffocation, and death. Not necessarily in that order.

You might survive a 20 minute flight, but I doubt any longer.

Remember, kids: Stowing away is for boats, buses, and tractor trailers.

T.I.N.S.

[normiss 898]

and choo choo trains NOT orginating in Mexico.

[Gato 0]

Thanks! I didn't want to say it, but yes.

T.I.N.S.

[RB_Hammer 0]

Yeah, really stupid. But if some dumb fuck could get up in there, what is to stop some other dumb fuck from putting a bomb in there?

"I'm not lost. I don't know where I'm going, but there's no sense in being late."
Mathew Quigley

[BillyVance 35]

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Yeah, really stupid. But if some dumb fuck could get up in there, what is to stop some other dumb fuck from putting a bomb in there?

Very good point... any suicide bomber could get in there and set a timer for 30-45 minutes once the doors start closing.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[sartre 0]

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Yeah, really stupid. But if some dumb fuck could get up in there, what is to stop some other dumb fuck from putting a bomb in there?

Chilling thought. How does that happen?

[gonzalesna 1]

SC, here we come...

[whisper]Shhhhh, we don't need any more restrictions. Pretty soon, they'll be shoving cameras up our asses searching for a tube of toothpaste 1oz. over the limit that may or may not contain liquid explosives.[whisper/]

Some people refrain from beating a dead horse. Personally, I find a myriad of entertainment value when beating it until it becomes a horse-smoothie.

[johnsw71 0]

Real smooth -- now you've gone and given this idea to all the terrorists who read this site regularly!

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Yeah, really stupid. But if some dumb fuck could get up in there, what is to stop some other dumb fuck from putting a bomb in there?