Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Man Who Fell from Sky

It started out like any other day, a nice quite Sunday morning, until residents of a West London neighborhood found a body laying on the sidewalk near a convince store.
Police concluded that the man-probably already dead-had fallen from a jet that was flying over head and lowered its' landing gear. He had no identification papers, and is thought to be from Angolan. He is thought to be between the age of 20 and 30 years old. He most likely boarded a plane at Luanda, where airport security is very poor. 'He was wearing jeans, white sneakers and a gray sweatshirt when he was found on Sept. 9, police said.'
People who try to stow away on planes, often don't work out. "They so often end in fatality because more often than not stowaways climb into the wheel base or cargo hold, and those areas are not necessarily pressurized. When you start moving beyond 10,000 feet, oxygen starvation becomes a reality. As you climb up to altitude, the issue becomes cold as well, the temperature drops to minus 40 or minus 50 degrees centigrade, so survival rates drop."

For the full story go to: http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2012/12/10/police-unable-identify-man-who-fell-from-sky/8N6QnhGmj0oPnkGN2XBEaP/story.html

1 comment:

  1. This is crazy, i have never heard anything like this happening.

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