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FORT LAUDERDALE – Broward sheriff’s deputies and a medical examiner descended on Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport overnight after bodies were found in an aircraft compartment on a JetBlue Airways plane.
JetBlue issued a statement that said two people were found dead in an aircraft’s landing gear compartment on Monday night around 11:30 p.m. The bodies were found during a routine inspection after the plane landed.
“The circumstances surrounding how they accessed the aircraft remain under investigation,” JetBlue said. “This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred.”
The carrier said the aircraft most recently operated as Flight 1801 from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
JetBlue Airways is headquartered in Long Island City in Queens, New York. It has a field office on the property of Orlando International Airport.
A similar incident happened over the holidays in Hawaii. A body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Chicago when the plane landed in Maui. There is no explanation for how the person got on the ramp.
CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave says the wheel well is not typically pressurized or heated. The temperatures at altitude are well below freezing. People who choose to stow away like this almost always face death.
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