Boston authorities said Friday that at a teenager whose body was found in a Boston suburb last month appeared to have stowed away inside the wheel well of a 737 arriving from Charlotte, N.C. The remains of Delvonte Tisdale, 16, were found in Milton, Mass., below the approach path to Boston's Logan Airport, according to a report in The New York Times. Tisdale was believed to have gotten on the flight in Charlotte, although authorities -- including the TSA -- had no idea how he breached airside security to get to the aircraft.

Norfolk County Massachusetts district attorney William R. Keating told the Times that authorities searched two airplanes that left Charlotte for Boston on Nov. 15 and found handprints in the left wheel well of the a 737 that departed Charlotte on 7 p.m. on that day. "As they looked at the grease, they saw what I describe as lateral impressions that showed there was someone in there. There was a handprint in an area where it ordinarily wouldn't be," Keating said. "I don't pretend to tell you how he did it," he added. Boston area police originally thought Tisdale had been murdered. He was last seen in Charlotte around 1 a.m. on Nov. 15 and found less than 24 hours later in Milton. A resident in the area reported hearing a loud thump just prior to the aircraft's landing at Logan.

Could it be that the airplane's registration was more than 3 years old????? Another reason maybe, to re-register.

Maybe it was a Taleeeeeeebam Suicide Bomber.

GJ

Maybe he'd just seen that Arnold Schwartzenegger movie Commando where he rides the landing gear of an airliner. Doesn't work out too well in real life I guess. Darn, I was just getting ready to give it a whirl myself...

Geeze!..I guess I'll have to keep my bummin' on trains.

hey that Charlotte airport security must be good....

I guess nobody told the poor kid it would be real effen cold. The parents will probably sue, wrongful death. Should have been placards stating extremely cold area during flight. Oh, placards will have to be in 10 different languages.

Good day

RobBurson wrote:I guess nobody told the poor kid it would be real effen cold. The parents will probably sue, wrongful death. Should have been placards stating extremely cold area during flight. Oh, placards will have to be in 10 different languages.

Good day

...not to mention the lack of oxygen either.

I recall, many years back, someone falling out of a wheel well. I think he was trying to escape from cuba. I don't remember the details if he was DOA or managed to survive.

patrol guy wrote:hey that Charlotte airport security must be good....

No kidding. WTF

Milk of Human Kindness overflowing here...not

FFS he was someone's 16 year old kid...

I recall, many years back, someone falling out of a wheel well. I think he was trying to escape from cuba. I don't remember the details if he was DOA or managed to survive.

The cuben guy fell out of the wheel well when the airplane landed,ended up on the runway.
Pretty much frozen. With in 12 hours he thawed out and was walking around.Dr said it was amazing.Kind of like the fly in the freezer bit.
Dont know what happened to him, proubly sent him back to Cuba.

patrol guy wrote:hey that Charlotte airport security must be good....

They must not have their backscatter x-rays up and running.

Defiantly a candidate for the Darwin Awards.
GJ