The airline’s website said that when United Flight 202 from Chicago O’Hare International Airport touched down at Kahului Airport on Tuesday afternoon, the corpse was found in one of the compartments that holds the aircraft’s landing gear. There were no other details given about the deceased.
“Only those outside the airplane could reach the wheel well. “How and when the person accessed the wheel well is unclear at this time,” it stated.
United said it was working with authorities on the investigation. The Federal Aviation Administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Stowaways in the unpressurized wheel-houses and cargo holds of planes can face temperatures of between minus 50 degrees and minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 58 and minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit), as well as a lack of oxygen.
While the fatality rate for most wheel-well stowaways is high, some people have survived the ordeal.
A person was found alive in the undercarriage bay of an Algerian carrier’s aircraft in Paris last year. In January 2022, a stowaway was discovered alive in the wheel section under the front of a Cargolux freight plane that arrived at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport from Africa.
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