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Horror of residents in plush London suburb as stowaway who had been clinging to a plane plunges to his death in the middle of street
A stowaway appears to have plunged thousands of feet onto a quiet residential street after his frozen body dropped out of an aeroplane's undercarriage as it came in to land. The body of the man, thought to be in his 30s and from North Africa, was found on a car parked in a road near London Heathrow Airport by shocked residents at 7:55am yesterday morning. (www.dailymail.co.uk) المزيد...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Graanted the people were stupid. But there are few comments about the desperation of people in this world and the loss of life or are they only people from Africa. Have WE lost our humanity?
Well, we have only heard of 3 in the last year. The one a couple of weeks ago was running from security and just hopped in the BA 747 to hide. His original intention for entering the Airport is unknown. I thought I had read that this guy was from North Africa but I just reread the article and they simply don't know. The other was the teenager last year that hopped the US Air at CLT going to Boston, and fell out about 2 miles out on approach. As far as losing the Humanity, I really don't think so, but you have a group of people in this forum that are aviation oriented and these acts just seem so perposterous, they just can't understand it. There are 3 people here in the space of a year There are probably many other things that these folks would be sensitive too that others might not be.
"Plunges to his death"? After how long at 30k+ & -40 C? A least hedidn't shatter on impact. I hope these aren't copycats.
Hopefully these are just recent cases of ignorance, people not realizing it actually is colder at 30,000 feet, and not attempts to sneak into and damage/cause mechanical failures. We may see TSA inspecting every airplane on the tarmac prior to push back before long.
If it got widespread, that might help, but the guy at Heathrow a couple of weeks ago apparently jumped in as the bird was ready for takeoff. There may well be a kneejerk reaction, but as I said earlier, how many flights per day worldwide and this makes #3 in the last year or so????
Just did the math... .0000017% of commercial flights have been affected by stowaways this year. Surprised there's a not a US Department of Stowaway Prevention yet.
LOL