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Stowaway Dies On YUL-CDG Flight

Caribb From Canada, joined Nov 1999, 1627 posts, RR: 9
Posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 5433 times:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...TOW03/TPNational/?query=air+france

Seems like Air France had a really eventful day yesterday... A stowaway was found dead in the landing gear of an A330 arriving from Montreal, the same day their A340 crashed in Toronto.

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Airlinelover From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 5580 posts, RR: 27
Reply 1, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 5239 times:

Well this is nto the fault of AF.. If someone wants to basically commit suicide that way, it's sad, but not much can be done..

Chris

Lets do some sexy math. We add you, subtract your clothes, divide your legs and multiply

Flying Belgian From Belgium, joined Jun 2001, 2359 posts, RR: 10
Reply 2, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 5198 times:

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The aircraft flew on a FIH-CDG flight before its CDG-YUL-CDG leg. It was F-GZCC who was in Kinshasa saturday night...

May be this is some kind of explanation.

FB.

Life is great at 41.000 feet...

Captjetblast From Argentina, joined Aug 2001, 280 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 5156 times:

How did he get into the landing gear bay?

What if he carried a bomb?

And this happened many times.

SHUPirate1 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3661 posts, RR: 18
Reply 4, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 5096 times:

Now, why would somebody want to sneak out of Canada?

Burma's constitutional referendum options: A. Yes, B. Go to Insein Prison!

Caribb From Canada, joined Nov 1999, 1627 posts, RR: 9
Reply 5, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 5075 times:

Quoting Airlinelover (Reply 1):
Well this is nto the fault of AF

Oh I know it's not Air France's fault but I was just remarking on them having to deal with the effects of a crash as well as an unusual death on one of their planes all on the same day.

The way this was reported on the Canadian news last night suggested the body might have come from the flight prior to the YULCDG leg so if it was Kinshasa maybe it was someone from there trying to get into France but died enroute and ended up going to Canada and back before anyone noticed. Sad really.

LJ From Netherlands, joined Nov 1999, 4143 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 5016 times:

Quoting Captjetblast (Reply 3):
How did he get into the landing gear bay?

Security at your local African airport (where most stoways "board" their plane) isn't so good.

Quoting Captjetblast (Reply 3):
What if he carried a bomb?

It would have exploded on the FIH-CDG flight, not on YUL-CDG.

BTW isn't the lack of security at some African airports the reason why airlines from the UIS are not allowed to fly to these airports? Or why direct links with the US are forbidden?

Gilligan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 4908 times:

Quoting Flying Belgian (Reply 2):
The aircraft flew on a FIH-CDG flight before its CDG-YUL-CDG leg. It was F-GZCC who was in Kinshasa saturday night

Well that was some kind of walk around by the pilot if he couldn't even spot a dead body in the wheel well! lol

Caribb From Canada, joined Nov 1999, 1627 posts, RR: 9
Reply 8, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 4818 times:

Well that would suggest three pilots missed him... the one flying from Kinshasa, the pilot on CDG-YUL and the the pilot flying YUL-CDG.. as well as all the ground crew... so he (or she) must have been well hidden or sadly squished well up inside the wheel well.

Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15989 posts, RR: 59
Reply 9, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 4662 times:

His body could have been there for several flights. Kinshasa (and certainly not YUL) is a logical starting point.

Hopefully, AF will lodge a protest with the Kinshasa airport authority. Not that it will make the slightest bit of difference.

Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.

Flying Belgian From Belgium, joined Jun 2001, 2359 posts, RR: 10
Reply 10, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 4559 times:

Quoting Caribb (Reply 8):
Well that would suggest three pilots missed him... the one flying from Kinshasa, the pilot on CDG-YUL and the the pilot flying YUL-CDG.. as well as all the ground crew... so he (or she) must have been well hidden or sadly squished well up inside the wheel well.

The space where those people use to hide inside the nose-gear is not the place that pilots/engineers must check during their walk-around. A landing gear of an A330 is quite a big stuff...

The same thing happened tuesday at BRU airport where a Morrocan was found in the nose-gear of a Royal Air Maroc 744 coming from Nador. And six years ago almost days for days two bodies where found in the nose-gear of a Sabena A330 from Conakry.

FB.

Life is great at 41.000 feet...

Zvezda From Lithuania, joined Aug 2004, 10511 posts, RR: 65
Reply 11, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 4489 times:

It seems that not a lot of Africans choose to bring appropriate clothes for -50 degree temperatures when flying in the nose gear well. Evolution in action....

YULMRS From France, joined Mar 2005, 193 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 4458 times:

I remember seeing a report on French TV a few years ago.

Was about people living near CDG and who "received" two men falling from the sky. In fact those were men falling from the landing gears of AF (and African companies) flights from Africa.

To any North American carrier, send us a regular flight in MRS !!!!!

GLA MD11 From France, joined Mar 2000, 275 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 4393 times:

Quoting Zvezda (Reply 11):
It seems that not a lot of Africans choose to bring appropriate clothes for -50 degree temperatures when flying in the nose gear well. Evolution in action....

Well, most people have no clue of the temperature up there, even with a "western civilized" education. Ask people around you and you will notice most people think airliners' cabins are cooled down in altitude... whereas they are actually heated...

YULMRS From France, joined Mar 2005, 193 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 4330 times:

Quoting Zvezda (Reply 11):
It seems that not a lot of Africans choose to bring appropriate clothes for -50 degree temperatures when flying in the nose gear well. Evolution in action....

You're talking about disparate people leaving their too poor countries, and people able to do incredible things in order to leave those countries ... For them our western way of life is a kind of dream, and their education isn't ours. That's the same thing in some other threads about journalist ... They don't know.

Most people on this website (including me) don't see how the "general public" consider aviation, we are a kind of highly aviation sensitized microcosm ...

To any North American carrier, send us a regular flight in MRS !!!!!

Halls120 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 15, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 4323 times:

Quoting SHUPirate1 (Reply 4):
Now, why would somebody want to sneak out of Canada?

LOL!!!

Flying Belgian From Belgium, joined Jun 2001, 2359 posts, RR: 10
Reply 16, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 4265 times:

Quoting YULMRS (Reply 14):
You're talking about disparate people leaving their too poor countries, and people able to do incredible things in order to leave those countries ... For them our western way of life is a kind of dream, and their education isn't ours. That's the same thing in some other threads about journalist ... They don't know.

Most people on this website (including me) don't see how the "general public" consider aviation, we are a kind of highly aviation sensitized microcosm ...

Absolutely right man,

FB.

Life is great at 41.000 feet...

BoeingPride800 From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 429 posts, RR: 2
Reply 17, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 3872 times:

Wouldn't you think this wouldn't be happening anymore after all the times it has happened? Wouldn't there be any more security?

IL76TD From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 289 posts, RR: 0
Reply 18, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 3766 times:

Quoting SHUPirate1 (Reply 4):

Even more, who would leave anywhere for France?

Pawsleykat From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 1978 posts, RR: 14
Reply 19, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 3466 times:

Quote:
Airlinelover.
This is nto the fault of AF.. if someone wants to basically commit suicide that way, it's sad, but not to much can be done.

That would be horrible. Wouldn't you suffocate to death, knockout

, at the aircraft's cruising altitude. And what if you were asleep when the plane opened it's undercarriadge doors and you fell a couple of thousand feet. hissyfit

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Gilligan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 20, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 3159 times:

Quoting Flying Belgian (Reply 10):
The space where those people use to hide inside the nose-gear is not the place that pilots/engineers must check during their walk-around. A landing gear of an A330 is quite a big stuff...

Most of the pilots I have seen doing their walk arounds give at least a cursory look at the nose gear strut and a glance up into the wheel well with their flashlight. Ground crew, except to install the nose gear bypass pin, head seat jack, and hook up the tow bar avoid the gear save pulling the chocks unless they are obviously leaking hydraulic fluid.

YOWza From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 4781 posts, RR: 17
Reply 21, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 3095 times:

Quoting Yyz717 (Reply 9):
Hopefully, AF will lodge a protest with the Kinshasa airport authority. Not that it will make the slightest bit of difference.

YYZ717 I see you've had some dealing with Zaire/Africa. banghead

Jokes aside something must be done. Between stowaways and cattle on runways air travel in Africa is not in good shape.

My cousin works in Kinshasa right now and it is his company's policy that the only African airlines the office will book them on are SA, KQ and ET. There are two reasons for this 1) safety 2) punctuality. He tells me that it is better to fly Kinshasa -> Abidjan via CDG than to fly "shorter" routes within Africa because the chances of delays, strikes etc are far lower.

FYI I'm not Africa-bashing I have lived in 5 countries in Africa for about 16 years so I know what I'm talking about.

Quoting SHUPirate1 (Reply 4):
Now, why would somebody want to sneak out of Canada?

In fairness he would have been escaping Quebec... that is more than possible.

YOWza

12A whenever possible.

Caribb From Canada, joined Nov 1999, 1627 posts, RR: 9
Reply 22, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2958 times:

Quoting YOWza (Reply 21):
In fairness he would have been escaping Quebec... that is more than possible

That's a low blow.... Sad

YOWza From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 4781 posts, RR: 17
Reply 23, posted (7 years 9 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 2884 times:

Quoting Caribb (Reply 22):
That's a low blow.... Sad

Hey Caribb, I forgot to put a Smile

next to that comment. It was a joke. I lived in in Montreal for number of years and love it!

YOWza

12A whenever possible.

PADSpot From Germany, joined Jan 2005, 1676 posts, RR: 5
Reply 24, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 2836 times:

Quoting Zvezda (Reply 11):
It seems that not a lot of Africans choose to bring appropriate clothes for -50 degree temperatures when flying in the nose gear well. Evolution in action....

Interesting question: What would you die of first: Suffocation or freezing to death?

Not to forget that some have been crushed to death by the moving landing gear (I think of the NY incident some weeks ago ... ). Although there was at least one report that a stowaway had survived such a journey, though it was a shorter one ...

By the way it's not the first time that deceased stowaways made more than one trip in the gear well. Last year an LTU A330 came back from VRA to DUS and they found a dead cuban who had already started to decompose. Days later when the forensic report was published it was said "he" must have made at least two journeys to and from Cuba. The continuous freezing and heating up again between the flight legs had an increasing accelerating effect on decomposition ...

NYCFlyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1381 posts, RR: 10
Reply 25, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2351 times:

Anyone know the mechanics of stowing away in a wheel well?

Anyone know how big the inside of a wheel well is? Any pics? I always thought there was just enough room for the wheel, and nothing else. Clearly I'm wrong if there's space enough for a grown man. So once the wheel is up, how much space is there? Can you walk around? Do you have to lie down and not move?

Also - once the landing gear comes out, I would imagine there's a huge threat of being sucked out of the plane by the wind thrust, and falling 5,000 feet to your death. Pleasant.

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