A suspected
stowaway was found frozen to death in the undercarriage of a South
African Airline passenger jet at Dulles Airport in Washington, after the
plane landed from Senegal.
The
man, identified only as Chris Dikeh, with a Nigerian Passport and in
his mid-30s, is believed to have frozen in temperatures around -60°C
The deceased
boarded the aircraft from Dakar, Senegal, his body was discovered
Saturday in the wheel well of the plane parked at Dulles International
Airport in Washington.
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Airport
authorities say the male body was recovered from the landing gear of
the Airbus A340 belonging to South African Airways. The flight arrived
in Dulles on Wednesday last week.
“Once
at the Dulles International Airport in Washington DC, it was discovered
that there was a fault with the landing gear of the aircraft A340-300
and the aircraft had to receive attention. It led to SAA dispatching its
engineers and technicians to the US to identify the cause and to fix
the fault on the aircraft”.
“During the process of conducting tests on the aircraft, SAA engineers discovered a human body in the centre wheel well”.culled
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