Airblue - boy falls from Airbus A320 landing gear on takeoff

[bizjets101]

The pilot of an Airblue flight had contacted the control room immediately after take-off and reported a malfunction while closing a plane’s wheels, air traffic control sources said, informing the controllers a few minutes later that the problem had been rectified.

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During the last year, there was a man found dead in the wheel well of a Delta B777 during maintenance - after a flight from Tokyo click here, another man fell to his death in Santo Domingo falling from an Amerijet B767 click here, and back in June a young man survived a 97 minute flight in the wheel well of a private B747 and was arrested when he fell out of the wheel well on the ramp at Heathrow!!!! Click here.

Al-Faisal Town at top of photo.

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[cdnpilot77]

He said the house where the body was found was one aerial mile from the airport. By that distance the plane would have ascended to nearly 20,000 feet, and humans could not survive at that altitude.

Am I missing something here? Was it a Soyuz that he hung on too?

[iflyforpie]

A Soyuz or a Sukhoi.

Somebody has to teach these stowaways about avionics hatches.

[fish4life]

I always laugh at these stories... landing gear is not meant to take up a lot of space if they don't freeze chances are they will get crushed quite nicely such dumb people

[CPLMike89]

they'll probably start charging for wheel well seats now.

[niss]

they'll probably start charging for wheel well seats now.

BA-ZING!

[bobcaygeon]

I always laugh at these stories... landing gear is not meant to take up a lot of space if they don't freeze chances are they will get crushed quite nicely such dumb people

Every once in awhile one of these guys survives the trip and inspires many others. Makes you realize how shit poor some living conditions are in these countries if your willing to bet your life on such low odds.

It's not a coincindence people don't do this on aircraft departing first world countries.

[felix0315]

He said the house where the body was found was one aerial mile from the airport. By that distance the plane would have ascended to nearly 20,000 feet, and humans could not survive at that altitude.

Am I missing something here? Was it a Soyuz that he hung on too?

Even though he touched down a mile away, he should have separated from the plane way before that. Basic physics tells us that when a person drops an object while moving, it remains in the same horizontal speed as just before the release. I don't know how much air friction would've affected his horizontal speed, but maybe its not too far from half a mile?

[cdnpilot77]

My point was however, the mans description of how it couldnt have been a stowaway because the airplane would have already been at 20,000' 1 mile from the airport

[bizjets101]

As an aviator, common sense should tell you the reporter has written 20,000 feet, obviously he meant at least 2,000 feet one mile from the runway - not 20,000.

[Joe Blow Schmo]

2,000 feet at one mile would be pretty unlikely too.

[cdnpilot77]

As an aviator, common sense should tell you the reporter has written 20,000 feet, obviously he meant at least 2,000 feet one mile from the runway - not 20,000.

Actually as an aviator, I took it a completely different way, and common sense tells me that the guy the reporter was speaking with was trying to deflect and spin, something that they are very good at in the middle east. Thank you for the sarcasm of my opinion though.

[ahramin]

As an aviator, common sense should tell you the reporter has written 20,000 feet, obviously he meant at least 2,000 feet one mile from the runway - not 20,000.

Common sense (which isn't very common) should tell you that humans can survive at 2,000 feet, so the reporter meant 20,000.

[albertdesalvo]

Common sense (which isn't very common) should tell you that humans can survive at 2,000 feet,

True. It's only the last foot that kills 'em.

[KAG]

2,000 feet at one mile would be pretty unlikely too.

Not if he's lite it isn't.