Stowaway in a Delta 777 found dead

Aviation Incident and Accident information base AvHerald had reported a sad incident about a stowaway that chose to hide inside the landing gear bay.
Although this person apparently was a harmless man in need of moving to a country, this also leaves questions about possible similar security threats.

It is now believed that this person had hid in the gear bay not at this flight’s origin ( JFK ), but in an earlier flight of the aircraft.

Original AvHerald report as follows :

“Incident: Delta Airlines B772 at
Tokyo on Feb 7th 2010,
stowaway found dead
By Simon Hradecky, created
Sunday, Feb 7th 2010 16:25Z,
last updated Sunday, Feb 7th
2010 16:57Z
A Delta Airlines Boeing 777-200,
registration N867DA performing
flight DL-59 (dep Feb 6th) from
New York JFK,NY (USA) to Tokyo
Narita (Japan) with officially 193
people on board, had seemingly
performed an uneventful flight
and landed safely.
In a post flight inspection a
mechanics found a dead black
male stowaway in the left main
gear bay.
Japanese Police have opened an
investigation and currently
assume, that the person got into
the gear bay in New York and
froze to death and/or died from
hypoxia. No injuries have been
found.”

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