Officials in Broward County, Florida tell CNN that the two still-unidentified men found dead in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue Airbus A320 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday night were frequent flyers, having likely traveled to destinations all around the US and the Carribbean such as New York, Salt Lake City, and Kingston, Jamaica, and more.
Thing is they weren’t actually alive to see those destinations, as a law enforcement official said the two men’s bodies were “badly decomposed” and would’ve been stuck in the compartment for weeks, if not months, making it difficult to determine where they first got on and then either asphyxiated from the lack of oxygen or froze to death at temperatures often dipping below -70 F.
That the two corpses were “refrigerated” to such extremes for much of their time inside the compartment obviously would’ve slowed the decomposition, thus making it maybe just a little embarrassing to JetBlue that it took them however freaking long to find the bodies. Really they’d have to go back to the last time the landing gear was serviced and work from there to figure out when and where the two might have snuck on. The incident was the second such in the US in two weeks as on Christmas Eve a person was found dead in the landing gear of a United Airlines Boeing 787 that landed in Maui from Chicago. No details on the state of the remains were made public.