While it is unclear whether the person was attempting to stow away on the flight, it's not uncommon for people to use wheel wells, nose wells and other unpressurized areas to sneak onto aircraft.

So engineers would rather tilt the MLG bogies and make the gear wells smaller. The result? Of the current aircraft produced by Airbusand Boeing with four or six-wheel bogies, all except the Airbus ...

it's not uncommon for people to use wheel wells, nose wells and other unpressurized areas to sneak onto aircraft. Stowaways in the unpressurized wheel houses and cargo holds of planes have to ...

While the GMT 400 was a pretty big step up in quality, comfort, and styling, it carried over one of its predecessors more controversial styling cues — square wheel wells. In fact, GM put square ...

Instances of stowaways hiding in aircraft wheel wells have been documented for decades. Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the Department of Transportation, revealed that the Federal ...

How they accessed the aircraft’s wheel well is under investigation ... Stowaways have been known to hide in wheel wells, where they face various risks of death: being crushed by retracting ...

Authorities in the United States have been working to identify two bodies discovered in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane shortly after it landed in the southern state of Florida. The bodies were ...

The detachment of a wheel from a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft en route from Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka was due to a bearing failure or malfunction, according to an initial assessment by the ...

The aircraft is a Boeing 787-10 ... temperatures as flights climb to cruising altitudes make surviving in the wheel wells or other areas of commercial planes rare, the Federal Aviation ...

There, law enforcement say an X-ray scan found two people hidden in the truck’s wheel wells and two others in an auxiliary fuel tank below the truck’s bed. Two of the migrants were found ...

"The circumstances surrounding how they accessed the aircraft remain under investigation ... who often hide in the cramped wheel wells of planes, are typically young men under the age of 30 ...