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.