USA: A body is found in the wheel compartment of a United Airlines plane

USA: A body is found in the wheel compartment of a United Airlines plane

US police investigate the appearance of a body in the tire compartment of a United Airlines plane. In detail, the chilling discovery was made after the aircraft landed at the Kahului airport, Hawaii, from the city of Chicago.

The body was found in the hole where the main tires of the landing gear of flight 202 are stored. According to the company, the compartment is only accessible from the outside of the aircraft, so, for the moment, the origin of the victim is unknown.

The chilling discovery on a flight in the United States

Police authorities are investigating the identity of the fatal victim found in the wheel compartment of the aircraft. In detail, it was United Airlines flight 202 – a Boeing 787-10 -, that headed from Chicago to Kahului Airport.

He place where the body was found It is a type of space or drawer inside the airplane that closes when the landing gear is stowed after takeoff. Local media detailed that these types of areas inside aircraft are not designed for human occupancy and present serious health hazards, including extremely low oxygen levels and temperatures close to -54°C.

For now, The identity and gender of the victim was not revealed. and, both since United Airlines as well as the Maui Police Department are cooperating in the ongoing investigation. For their part, Maui airport authorities They did not give more information about it.

They will resume the search for the Malaysia Airlines plane 10 years after its disappearance

In reference to aerial incidents, the Malaysian government assured to have an agreement in principle to resume the search for a passenger plane that disappeared 10 years ago, in one of the greatest mysteries of aviation. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was last seen on radar in March 2014 while en route to Beijing, China, from Kuala Lumpur, with 239 people on board.

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The flight disappeared more than 10 years ago, on March 8, 2014.

In detail, the aircraft took off from Kuala Lumpur in the early hours of March 8, 2014 and lost communication with air traffic control less than an hour after takeoff. After this, the Radar showed that it deviated from its planned flight path and there was no more information about it. In the years after the disappearance, pieces of debris believed to be from the plane appeared on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

Until now, efforts to locate the wreckage of the Boeing 777 They failed over the years and hundreds of families of those on board remain haunted by the tragedy. Now, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the cabinet approved in principle a US$70 million with the American marine exploration company Ocean Infinity to find the plane.

In detail, this agreement has a particularity: If it is not found, it is not paid. In this sense, the Ocean Infinity company will receive payment only when the remains are found. There is a precedent that dates back to 2018, when the same company carried out a search under similar terms for about three months, without success.

The new search will cover an area of ​​15,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean, based on new data that Kuala Lumpur considered “credible,” the minister said. “We hope this moment is positive,” he added.

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