This is a perennial news story at international airports. Some of these incidents make the news but others are handled rather quietly.
At NRT they got tired of having bodies fall onto houses and now have you drop your gear out over the water on many published arrivals.
A quote from the first article below: "It's horrific. Every year, we have between six or 10 cases of people dying as they try to make their way here. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/s...854754,00.html
http://news.airwise.com/stories/2000/09/969366040.html
http://www.ardmoreite.com/stories/022001/new_well.shtml
http://news.screaminglemur.com/stories/20010808body.htm
http://www.worldpaper.com/2000/may2000/vittachi.html
There are occasional survivors:
http://news.airwise.com/stories/2000/08/965470357.html
At least one scholarly article has been written on this unfortunate mode of transportation:
http://www.asma.org/Publication/abst...7n8/67-784.htm
Here's an earlier PPRuNe thread on the survival aspects:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=50291