A dead body was discovered in the landing gear of an American Airlines flight in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to a press release from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, maintenance workers discovered the stowaway on Sunday, September 28.

Dead Stowaway Found in American Airlines Flight Landing Gear

Just shortly after 9 AM, workers were performing maintenance of an American Airlines flight that had just arrived in the 5000 block of Hangar Road in the Airport Division from Europe. Upon entering the landing gear, they found an unresponsive body.

CMPD’s Airport Division officers pronounced the unidentified stowaway dead at the scene. “Homicide Unit detectives responded to the scene to conduct an investigation,” it said. “Crime Scene Search responded to process the scene and

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