Body parts fall from (JFK bound) plane (Reuters)

[Up2Late]

Body parts fall from plane

Wed Jun 8, 2005 10:51 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pieces of a man's body fell from the wheel well of a South African Airways passenger plane bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport Tuesday and landed in the yard of a suburban home, police said.

A U.S. customs inspector discovered the rest of the man's body at 7:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) after Flight 203 landed in New York from Johannesburg, South Africa, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees area airports.

A South African Airways spokeswoman said it appeared to have been a stowaway attempt. She said the plane had stopped in Dakar, Senegal, on its way to New York.

The pilot reported feeling vibrations at takeoff but conducted a check and found nothing amiss, said Nassau County, New York, police detective Kevin Smith.

(More at link above--Warning: Graphic Details)

[meppie-meppie not]

1. well those "poverty seats" can be uncomfortable

yikes!:hide:

[jojo54]

2. LOL

Gawd, I feel so guilty for laughing, but that was funny.

[Career Prole]

3. It's raining al-Zarqawi's lost legs! n/t

[emad]

4. Also in DU Lounge:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3410581&mesg_id=3410581

[Up2Late]

5. Man, The New York Daily News gets right to the gross stuff...

...without any warning. Yeeeesh.

[gulfcoastliberal]

6. Sad that people still actually think this is the land of opportunity

And sad they resort to such desperate measures to try to get here. How truly awful for that poor human being.

[Peachhead22]

7. It'a bird, it's a plane...

...AHHHHHHH! IT'S AN ARM!

[Total Disaster]

8. The guy must have been dying to enter the US. n/t