JEDDAH (AFP) – Human
body parts fell from the sky in the city of Jeddah Sunday, with police saying
they could be the remains of a person trapped in an airplane’s wheel bay.
“Police received a
telephone call at 2:30 am from a witness reporting the fall of human remains at
an intersection in Mushrefa neighbourhood” in the Red Sea city, spokesman Nawaf
bin Naser al-Bouq said in a statement.
Initial indications
were that the remains “fell from a plan’s landing gear,” said Bouq, adding that
investigations were ongoing.
In a desperate
attempt to cross borders, some people at poorly monitored airports climb inside
the bays holding the landing gear of planes. Most of them freeze to death once
the aircraft reach cruising altitude, but some survive.
In 2010, the head of
Beirut’s airport security resigned after the death of a man who managed to
sneak onto a runway undetected and hide in the wheel bay of a Saudi-bound jet.
The man’s body was
found by a maintenance worker in Riyadh who was inspecting the landing gear of
the Saudi-owned Nas Air Airbus 320 after it touched down there.
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