The dead body of a young Nigerian man was discovered yesterday Friday
October 26th in the wheel well, the undercarriage compartment of an Arik
Air aircraft, after it returned from a flight to New York, United States. One of the airline’s officials who spoke to ThisDay said the deceased might have hidden himself in the wheel well for days and was crushed to death while the flight was airborne to the JF Kennedy Airport, New York, from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The official who spoke to THISDAY said the dead body was found during a check on the aircraft panel as it was being prepared for another flight and that the undercarriage compartment of the Airbus A340-500 is big enough to accommodate a person, besides the space for the tyres. "He probably might have hidden himself there some days and died while the aircraft was on its way to New York. We found him when we were doing checks on the panel; the aircraft probably came back with him dead," the official said. The source said that it is out of ignorance that people hide in the wheel well and plan to stowaway because "the compartment is not pressurised like the
cabin of an aircraft and it is not heated, so survival is rare even if the person is not crushed by the wheels." Pilots and aeronautical engineers familiar with the wheel well compartment said it is roomy enough to contain a human being, but it is highly unlikely that any one who hid there would come out alive after a flight that took several hours due to lack of oxygen. The official attributed the incident to porous security at the airport, noting that "if having access to the airside is stringently prohibited, anybody that is not an official of airlines, handling companies and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria would not gain access to the tarmac." Another source said: "The security at the airport is very bad and that explains why somebody can gain access to the airside and inside the aircraft and no one will know. Security around the cargo area is even worse and from there anybody can take anything into the tarmac. Now, it is a human being that is smuggled in;
one day a dangerous object will be smuggled in." THISDAY investigations revealed that stowaways connive with ground handling companies to access the airside and the wheel well. "The handling company workers and the security operatives indulge in a lot of illicit activities at the airport and over the years there have been efforts to put a check on such excesses but every effort has so far failed," said another source.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigerian-stowaway-dies-in-arik-s-undercarriage/128849/

Sad news.. But at least dude ll be glad he landed in God's Own Country, though not in one piece 'cos he ll be transferred back in crates

Desperation for greener pasture that even aint greener than ours!

ogbeche77: Sad news.. But at least dude ll be glad he landed in God's Own Country, though not in one piece 'cos he ll be transferred back in crates

lolz not only crates in carton too.
Indeed it is well even in the well

If someone could get to that extent, a bomb could have been planted there na. This is a serious security breached and I would love to know how he got access there

Τhis is disturbing in the sense that if Boko Haram wanted to plant IED on that space, they would have done it successfully

Mynd_44: If someone could get to that extent, a bomb could have been planted there na. This is a serious security breached and I would love to know how he got access there

You mean questioning the dead

k2039:

You mean questioning the dead

And you are telling me he got there be talking a walk? Someone downed him the way there and if they question the guys there, they will find out how