Two stowaways who hid in plane's landing gear fall to death during takeoffAP Police carry away the body of one of two people who fell from a departing plane on the runway of the Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Airport in Ecuador. Airport personnel rushed to the site, fearing LATAM Airlines flight XL1438 lost vital parts before leaving the port city of Guayaquil. They arrived to find one person dead from the fall and another badly injured but alive. The two men appear to have crawled into the landing gear section of the plane, said General Marcelo Tobar, Guayaquil's police chief. The survival rate for stowaways in 10 incidents involving 11 people (one flight recorded two stowaways) was essentially a toss up, according to an FAA incident summary.

Source: Stuff February 27, 2018 20:26 UTC