Pieces of a man's body fell from the wheel well of a South African Airways passenger plane bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday and landed in the yard of a suburban home, police said.
A U.S. customs inspector discovered the rest of the man's body at 7:30 a.m. after Flight 203 landed in New York from Johannesburg, South Africa [...] During the flight, Smith said the pilot felt more "vibrating sensations and heard pounding, but nothing appeared wrong with the plane."
The body parts, which included the right leg, part of the spine and a hip, struck a garage roof of the home in South Floral Park, New York, before landing in the backyard, police said.
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Body parts fall from plane approaching JFK
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It's "Coming to America" meets "Pieces"!
Maybe he got on the wrong plane, because Flight 203 goes JNB to DKR to JFK (New York via Senegal). Or maybe nobody told him that most people freeze to death even on shorter hops.
Darwin award!
Just what I was thinking.
okay
that's a pretty disgusting way to die
i mean
ew
He probably froze to death, then got chopped up by the mechanisms.
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What bothers me is that they said that the passengers on the plane were never in any danger. If a guy can sneak onto a plane like that, what's to stop him from doing something bad?
You can't do much harm when chopped into little peices.
No, but the fact that he was able to get to the plane in the first place is my concern.
> If a guy can sneak onto a plane like that, what's to stop him from doing something bad?
Because passenger planes don't have a wheel well to cabin passageway.
"Hey, what's this bomb doing in the wheel well?"
Bombs make their own passageway.
Yep, trying to defend against attacks against by preventing people from being able to make them is about as useful as the 'secure' entrance systems for large apartment buildings.
Hrm, guess we've all learned an important lesson here: Just because it worked in the 5th Element, that doesn't mean it works in real life.
Spider Robinson has used this exact scene in one of his books.
My grandma lives in Floral Park.
Hey, free leg!
I grew up there. It's frickin' freaky to read about this. Now I guess I can say my town is famous; those the listener might not like it when they hear what for. ;)
What's your grandma's name? :) And yours?
I will never again complain about being a tall guy flying in economy.