2 bodies found in JetBlue plane’s landing gear compartment at a Florida airport : NPR

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two our bodies have been discovered within the touchdown gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at a South Florida airport, authorities mentioned.

The our bodies have been found within the wheel properly space throughout a routine post-flight inspection on Monday evening at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport, the airline mentioned in an announcement to The Related Press.

The plane had arrived in Fort Lauderdale shortly after 11 p.m. from John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport in New York.

“Presently, the identities of the people and the circumstances surrounding how they accessed the plane stay underneath investigation,” JetBlue’s assertion mentioned.

“It is a heartbreaking scenario, and we’re dedicated to working intently with authorities to assist their efforts to know how this occurred,” the airline added.

Paramedics declared each individuals useless on the scene, the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned Tuesday. The company’s murder and crime scene models are investigating, it mentioned.

Each are believed to be males, mentioned Carey Codd, a spokesman for the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace, advised the AP.

“Past that, their identities at this level are unknown, and that’s among the info that Broward sheriff’s workplace detectives are attempting to type out at this level,” Codd mentioned.

“Detectives will examine and analysis all facets of this specific incident, making an attempt to determine the place the flight originated from, the place else it had been, the circumstances underneath which the people acquired onto the aircraft,” Codd added.

Although its most up-to-date flight was from New York to Fort Lauderdale, the jet had been in each Kingston, Jamaica, and Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, earlier on Monday, in line with the flight monitoring service FlightAware.com. Authorities have not mentioned the place they suppose the individuals acquired into the wheel properly.

Autopsies are deliberate for each our bodies to find out how they died, Codd mentioned.

The Transportation Safety Administration is working intently with the airline, the airport, native legislation enforcement businesses and the Federal Aviation Administration, a TSA spokesperson mentioned Tuesday.

It seems there was “no involvement of the flight crew or operation of the airplane,” the Nationwide Transportation Security Board mentioned in an announcement Tuesday morning. That company was not investigating, it mentioned.

It is the second time over the previous month {that a} physique has been discovered within the wheel properly of an airplane. In late December, a physique was discovered within the wheel properly of a United Airways aircraft after it landed in Maui from Chicago.

The airline business in latest months has additionally been coping with unticketed passengers present in cabins.

In November, a Russian nationwide who didn’t have a ticket boarded a Paris-bound Delta Air Traces flight in New York and was arrested when the aircraft touched down in France. She had one way or the other bypassed safety to board the flight, authorities mentioned.

Then on Christmas Eve, a passenger with no ticket boarded a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Honolulu. The passenger was found whereas the aircraft was taxiing for departure, Delta mentioned on the time.