Two found dead in JetBlue plane's landing gear JetBlue says incident 'heartbreaking'
The bodies of two people have been found in the landing gear of a JetBlue plane at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida, the airline said.
The two were found dead during a routine inspection Monday night after the plane landed, JetBlue said.
"The circumstances surrounding how they gained access to the aircraft remain under investigation," the airline said in a statement.
"This is a heartbreaking situation and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this happened."
The Airbus plane took off from New York's John F Kennedy International Airport at around 8 p.m. local time (01:00 GMT) on Monday and landed around 11 p.m.
Local police are investigating how the two people managed to board the plane, while the medical examiner's office is conducting autopsies to determine their causes of death, according to CBS News, the BBC's American partner. The incident comes just two weeks after a body was found in the landing gear compartment of a United Airlines plane that landed in Hawaii on Christmas Eve. Authorities have not said how the person got into the landing gear compartment or what the cause of death was.
The landing gear compartment of an airplane is a dangerous place, exposing passengers to extremely cold temperatures and a lack of oxygen. People in the compartment can also be crushed by the landing gear as it is pulled into the plane.
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