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A dead body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines jetliner after the aircraft landed in the Hawaiian island of Maui, the airline said on Wednesday. The body was discovered in the one of ...
A body was discovered in the wheel well of a United Airlines flight that arrived in Maui from Chicago.. Flight UA202 arrived at the Kahului Airport on Tuesday afternoon. On the ground, officials ...
Hiding in a plane’s wheel well is the most common method used by stowaways in their sought-after journeys. Over 77% of people who have attempted to hitch an illegal ride on an aircraft have died ...
Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.
Wheel-well stowaways have been widely covered in the press and media at large throughout the history of passenger airlines.One of the most notable incidents involved Keith Sapsford (14) from Sydney, Australia, who fell 200 feet (60 m) to his death from the wheel-well of a Tokyo-bound Japan Air Lines Douglas DC-8 on February 24, 1970, shortly after takeoff from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.
The first part of the system, named "Kalpana", was dedicated to Chawla, who had worked at the Ames Research Center before joining the Space Shuttle program. [79] The first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Metsat-1, was renamed to Kalpana-1 on February 5, 2003, after Chawla. [80] [81]
A body was found in the landing gear compartment, also known as the wheel well, of a United Airlines plane after it landed in Hawaii on Christmas Eve, the company said. Flight 202 departed from ...
Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) – died in the Columbia disaster; Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984) – founder of the OKB-52 rocket design bureau; Chen Yijian (born 1930) – participated in the design of the Shenyang JJ-1; Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky (1896–1960) – flying wing designer; S. L. Chernyshev (born 1955) – aerodynamicist