The dead body of a stowaway has been found in the aircraft's wheel well after the man hid there for a six-hour flight from Nigeria to Amsterdam before dying of hypothermia.
A man's dead body has been found by police inside the wheel well of an aircraft, that landed at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam from Nigeria.
Royal Netherlands Marechaussee ( Koninklijke Marechaussee) Authorities tweeted that they are still investigating the man's identity and cause of death.
We doen onderzoek naar het aantreffen van een stoffelijk overschot in het landingsgestel van een vliegtuig, afkomstig uit Lagos (Nigeria). @KMar_PenB_SPL en forensische opsporing van de Marechaussee doen dit ter vaststelling identiteit en doodsoorzaak. pic.twitter.com/SPZnhhkMlV
— Koninklijke Marechaussee (@Marechaussee) April 19, 2021
Hypothermia is believed to be the cause of the death as the man remained hidden inside an unpressurised area of the aircraft for 6 hours and 45 minutes as the aircraft flew from Lagos, the Nigerian capital to the Netherlands.
A spokesperson for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee told AD: "The man had holed up in the wheel arch of the plane. The low temperatures have presumably been fatal to him during the flight."
Other Stowaway Stories !
This is not the first time , a stowaway body was found inside a wheel well. The unfortunate act is seen to be repeated till date, as recent as today.
Infact , in the year 2018 - 11th February, the body of a stowaway was found in a Kenya Airways Flight from Kinshasa when the plane landed. It was believed that the stowaway might have frozen to death.
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