Plenty of questions still remain two days after authorities discovered a dead body in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane after the aircraft completed a flight from Chicago to Hawaii. The ...

Plenty of questions still remain two days after authorities discovered a dead body in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane after the aircraft completed a flight from Chicago to Hawaii. The ...

After the landing, “a body was found in the wheel well of one of the main landing gears on a United aircraft,” United Airlines said in a statement on Wednesday.

Wheel wells have been commonly used by individuals seeking to secretly board aircraft. However, hiding in the opening, where wheels are retracted after takeoff, often proves deadly.

At cruising altitudes of around 38,000 feet, wheel wells are unpressurized and unheated, with temperatures dropping well below freezing. Survival is rare, and fatalities are often caused by ...

Temperatures in the unpressurized wheel well, smaller than a car trunk on many planes, can reach as low as 58 to 76 degrees below zero. "It's sad, and it's usually fatal," Schiavo says.

Two people were found dead inside the landing gear of a JetBlue commercial airplane that landed Monday evening in Florida, according to reports.. The aircraft had landed at Fort Lauderdale ...

In 2015, a teenage boy hopped a fence at a San Jose airport and hid in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines plane headed to Maui. The boy became unconscious on the flight, surviving an altitude ...

On Monday evening, two bodies were found in the wheel well of a JetBlue flight that landed in Fort Lauderdale from New York. The grisly discovery was made during a routine post-flight assessment of ...