Landing gear door from Boeing 767 falls from sky onto street outside Seattle

[dasleben]

Sure looks like carbon fiber to me.

Chemtrails!

Nah, that's definitely the size and shape of a 767 main gear door (aluminum).

EDIT: Actually, I think you're right! Disregard me...

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

In Dakar, we have two trucks that follow us to the runway to ensure that no one runs from the perimeter and stows away.

They used to do the same thing for us when I did charters to Cuba. Although I'm not sure how the commies thought someone could fit in the wheel well of a 1900.

 

[Minuteman]

I wonder what one of those things weighs. I got to swing-around the -- uh, "ground air service door?" from a 747-400, which was about the size of that part in those pictures. Through the miracle of honeycomb and composites it couldn't have weighed more than a pound.

 

[X-Forces]

Haha... "

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reports that sub-zero temperatures and extreme oxygen deprivation would make it nearly impossible for a human to withstand any length of time in a passenger aircraft's wheel well."​

No, not "nearly" impossible. Just, impossible.

Not impossible, just highly unlikely.

I do recall a story years ago, maybe decades, where there was a survivor stow-away from a high altitude long haul flight. I believe, if I recall correctly, they stated that he went into a type of suspended animation from the cold, however was revived in the hospital after landing.

I know I wouldn't want to test out.

 

[SteveC]

Wiki lists a few that made it (and a whole lot more that didn't!):

• On 4 June 1969, Armando Socarras Ramirez and Jorge Perez Blanco climbed into the right landing gear well of an Iberia DC-8, Flight 904 from Havana, Cuba to Madrid, Spain. Socarras survived the flight with severe shock and exposure. Initially it was thought Perez fell from the aircraft during flight, either during a secondary retraction to clear a warning light, or during landing preparation as Socarras indicated he spoke to Perez during some duration of the flight. Later he claimed that Perez attempted to climb into the left well, failed and believes Perez is in a Cuban prison.

• On August 5 2000, an unidentified Tahitian man was discovered in the wheel well of Air France flight 71 in Los Angeles that originated in French Polynesia and was to go on to Paris. The man spent seven hours inside the unheated and unpressurized landing gear at 38,000 feet and survived temperatures of −50 °F (−46 °C) below zero. His body temperature registered 79 °F (26 °C), which can be fatal, and he was taken to UCLA medical center where he recovered fully. He was flown back to Tahiti under orders from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

• On June 9th, 2010, a 20-year-old Romanian stowaway survived a flight from Vienna to Britain in the undercarriage of a Boeing 747 owned by a wealthy Arab sheik. The man, whose name is believed to be Andrei Culea stated that he had crawled “under the wire” of the Schwechat airport’s perimeter fence and climbed into the undercarriage of the parked aircraft with no idea where the aircraft was heading. He was taken into custody at Heathrow airport, where he reportedly fell out of the landing gear undercarriage. Paramedics checked him over, but he had suffered only minor injuries. It was reported he only survived because the jet flew at a lower cruising altitude of 33,000 ft (rather than the standard 37,000 ft) because of poor weather. He was cautioned by police and freed with no further action being taken.