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Thursday, 25.10.2007
Stowaway passenger lands in woods near Moscow’s airport
Moscow. The corpse of a young man, who obviously fell from the wheel well of a plane, has been found in woods near Moscow. His identity, as well as the flight he fell from, have yet to be established.
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A man out walking his dog found the corpse. First of all he spotted a human leg suspended high up in a tree.
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Pathologists said the corpse was that of a 17 year-old youth with Asian features, who on being found had already been dead for a number of days, after falling from a great height. It is also possible that the youth was already dead on arrival – having frozen to death or died of lack of oxygen in the plane’s landing gear.
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Dropped like a stone when the seatbelt sign came on
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The corpse lay around 12 kilometres away from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. The victim had no identity papers except a scrap of paper with some Moscow phone numbers. The police, however, said that they had tried the numbers to no effect.
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Young stowaway recently survived a flight from Perm to Moscow
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The fatal tragedy was possibly the result of an attempt to copy a recent escapade, when a 15 year old boy was found alive on the tarmac of Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, having survived a one and a half hour flight from Perm in the wheel well of a Boeing 1300 – despite lack of oxygen and temperatures of –50°C. Experts had long regarded such a feat as impossible, but the young boy from Perm only suffered frostbite.
Take-off in Moscow not likely
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The boy’s features and the fact he was wearing only two T-shirts and jeans would seem to indicate, however, that he had come from Asia.
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Nothing unusual had been noticed recently with planes taking off from Domodedovo, the police said. Planes also usually retract their wheels immediately after take-off.
(ld/rufo/St.Petersburg)
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