Officials Discover Two De*d Bodies Inside Landing Gear Of Commercial Aircraft

Officials discovered two deceased individuals in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue airplane in Florida during post-flight inspections.

The aircraft landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after flying from New York City’s JFK Airport.

An investigation is underway to determine the identities of the two individuals and the circumstances of their death.

“JetBlue said the plane had most recently operated as Flight 1801 from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The flight landed in Fort Lauderdale at 11:10 pm,” Breaking Aviation News & Videos stated.

“The discovery comes two weeks after a body was found in the wheel bay of a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Maui,” it added.

Two people have been found dead in the wheel well of a JetBlue A320 after it landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

The bodies were discovered Monday night during a post-flight maintenance inspection. Their identities are unknown, the airline said, and “the… pic.twitter.com/p2oSJlnpf0

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FOX 5 NY reports:

“This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred,” the spokesperson said.

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Paramedics declared both of them dead at the scene, the Broward County sheriff’s office said Tuesday. The agency’s homicide and crime scene units are investigating, it said.

It appears there was “no involvement of the flight crew or operation of the airplane,” the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement. The agency was not investigating, it said.

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Broward sheriff’s deputies and a medical examiner descended on Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport overnight after two bodies were found dead in an aircraft compartment on a JetBlue plane.

The investigation was centered around Terminal 3, which is home to JetBlue… pic.twitter.com/13bYF8vNz2

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Two people were found dead in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane after it landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday. https://t.co/I43pz0PSHQ pic.twitter.com/N3L59owqFb

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Per CBS News:

According to CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave, the Airbus A320 departed JFK on Monday night at 8:20 p.m. The night temperatures in New York were frigid. It arrived in Fort Lauderdale a few minutes late at 11:03 p.m. Its cruising altitude was approximately 38,000 feet for the two-hour and 43-minute flight, per flightradar24.

The plane began its day in Kingston, Jamaica, according to the Transportation Security Administration. It then flew to JFK in New York, then to Salt Lake City, Utah, then back to JFK before ending up in Fort Lauderdale, according to Van Cleave, who said the plane overnighted in Kingston after arriving from JFK on Jan. 5th.

It is protocol for pilots to do a walk around the plane before each flight. Part of the inspection is to check the wheel wells. It’s possible that the people weren’t immediately visible in this case, according to Van Cleave.

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According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the deceased are both male and beyond that their identities are unknown.

The Jamaica Observer is reporting the two dead are believed to be Jamaican nationals, but CBS News Miami has not independently confirmed that information.

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