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Suspected stowaway is found dead in plane’s landing gear at a North Carolina airport
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Airplane maintenance workers at a North Carolina airport found the body of a suspected stowaway in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines flight that had recently arrived from Europe, police said.
The body was found Sunday morning while the plane was undergoing maintenance at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
In January, two bodies were found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue aircraft at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
The aircraft had arrived in Fort Lauderdale shortly after flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
In December, a body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane after it landed in Maui from Chicago.