The Daily Telegraph today states “ The body of a South African teenager found in the wheel well of a British airway’s jet at Los Angeles airport may have been there for almost a week, officials indicated yesterday.
It is believed that Samual Peter Benjamin, 17, crept aboard the aircraft at Cape Town, his home town, before it left on Jan 22. His body was found by a pilot in the nose wheel well of the Boeing 747 during a routine inspection at Los Angeles international airport just before take off on Sunday (28th Jan 2007). The flight had arrived from Heathrow several hours earlier, but had previously stopped at Singapore, Vancouver, Hong Kong and Cape Town.”
Makes one wonder how the body had not been detected before.
Are the undercarriage bays not subject of inspections during After Flight, Before Flight or Turn round servicing? If not in view of the many previous occurrences of people trying to stow-away in the undercarriage bays should not a requirement for such inspections be added to the schedules?
Last edited by MReyn24050; 3rd Feb 2007 at 11:34.