FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two our bodies had been discovered within the touchdown gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at a South Florida airport, authorities mentioned.
The our bodies had been positioned within the wheel effectively space on Monday night time at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport, the airline mentioned in an announcement to The Related Press.
They had been found throughout a routine post-flight upkeep inspection, JetBlue mentioned.
The plane had arrived in Fort Lauderdale shortly after 11 p.m. from John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport in New York.
“At this time, the identities of the individuals and the circumstances surrounding how they accessed the aircraft remain under investigation,” JetBlue’s assertion mentioned.
“This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred,” the airline added.
Paramedics declared each of them lifeless on the scene, the Broward County sheriff’s workplace mentioned Tuesday. The company’s murder and crime scene models are investigating, it mentioned. The people’ names weren’t instantly launched.
It seems there was “no involvement of the flight crew or operation of the airplane,” the Nationwide Transportation Security Board mentioned in an announcement Tuesday morning. The company was not investigating, it mentioned.
It’s the second time over the previous month {that a} physique has been discovered within the wheel effectively of an airplane. In late December, a physique was discovered within the wheel effectively of a United Airways aircraft after it landed in Maui from Chicago.
The airline business in current months has additionally been coping with unticketed passengers present in cabins.
In November, a Russian nationwide who didn’t have a ticket boarded a Paris-bound Delta Air Traces flight in New York and was arrested when the aircraft touched down in France. She had by some means bypassed safety to board the flight, authorities mentioned.
Then on Christmas Eve, a passenger with out a ticket boarded a Delta Air Traces flight from Seattle to Honolulu. The passenger was found whereas the aircraft was taxiing for departure, Delta mentioned on the time.