Body Part Falls From Plane, Lands In Yard

[johnnie]

"NEW YORK -- Police say a body or body part apparently fell from the wheel well of a plane coming in for a landing on Tuesday at John F. Kennedy Airport and landed in a suburban back yard, authorities said.

It landed on the roof of a detached garage at a home on Long Island.
More remains were found on a South African Airways flight after it landed at Kennedy, said Tony Ciavolella, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Police suspect the remains were that of a male stowaway, the spokesman said. He would not confirm that the incidents at the airport and Long Island were related, saying, "It's still under investigation."

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Umm... OK. I'm at a loss for words here.

[lady lib]

1. Ick?

[supernova]

2. Odd, they didn't say WHAT body part

:shrug:

[johnnie]

5. Well

They say it was a man, so maybe the part that fell gave them that information. :shrug:

[Roland99]

3. Baggage handler killed at Washington airport

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050607/ap_on_re_us/baggage_handler_killed&printer=1



Unrelated

[benburch]

4. Happens all the time.

The rest of him could be anywhere! Either at departure, before they closed the wheel wells, or on the landing pattern after they opened them.

Likely he miscalculated where to be in the wheel well when the gear was retracted, and the hydraulics dismembered him at takeoff.

[johnnie]

8. All the time?

Well, maybe this one made the news because the part fell on a garage.

[benburch]

10. Every few months!

Seriously.

[mcscajun]

21. They're frequently found frozen in the wheel well.

Those higher altitudes are Damned Cold!

[arwalden]

15. Wouldn't He Have Suffocated Anyway?

[benburch]

22. Not 100% of the time.

Depends on the routing and the barometric pressure.

Healthy adults can survive at high altitude for a period of time.

[Zenlitened]

6. Rapture test-run gone tragically wrong?

:shrug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. After the plane crash over Cerritos here about 19 years ago

People on the ground in the neighborhood where it happened found body parts and bones for weeks

[johnnie]

9. But that's a crash

This was some guy who got squished.

[Left Is Write]

11. That's kind of creepy.

I'm envisioning sitting out back enjoying a good book and having a body part land on the deck!

[johnnie]

12. Or in your bowl of chili

[Left Is Write]

14. Okay, that made me

:rofl:

[Hugin]

13. Fire up the grill, baby!

Manna from Heaven.

[Torgo Johnson]

16. I have always had a phobia about being killed by debris from a plane.

It went away for awhile but watching Donnie Darko made it come back. I still tense up when I hear a plane flying overhead.

[Hugin]

19. Lemme guess... You were happy when they stopped discharging the...

waste tanks before landing?

I know I was...

[Torgo Johnson]

20. Yep,I do not want my obituary to read "Killed by frozen shit"

[Divameow77]

17. Great Airport Security

If someone can sneak on a plane, imagine what they could sneak onto a plane.

[Misunderestimator]

18. Damn... and I thought pigeon poop was bad...