Why stowing away on an airplane undercarriage is a fatal mistake | By Les Abend, a former Boeing 777 captain, for CNNOpinion
Les Abend recently retired after 34 years as a Boeing 777 captain for American Airlines. He is a CNN aviation analyst and senior contributor to Flying magazine. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. View more opinion articles on CNN.
I confronted a lot of surprises and challenging situations over 34 years of flying commercial airplanes, but one thing never ceased to amaze me: that people will actually stow away inside the landing gear well of a commercial airliner and expect to survive. Les Abend But that's exactly what a man apparently tried this week. On Sunday afternoon in London at approximately 3:50 p.m., he plummeted into a residential garden near the approach path of Heathrow Airport. He did not survive. Authorities suspect that the unidentified man dropped from a Kenya Airlines flight that had departed Nairobi at 7:20 a.m. London's Metropolitan Police suggest he had been in the landing gear compartment.
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