How did he get to the airport tarmac and the plane? The body of a child "about ten years old" was discovered on Wednesday 8 January very early in the morning on the landing gear of an Air France plane arriving at Roissy-Charles airport in Gaulle from Abidjan, we learned from a source close to the investigation.
The plane, a Boeing 777, took off from the Ivorian economic capital on Tuesday evening and landed shortly after 6 a.m. in Paris. An airline spokesman confirmed the death of a "human smuggler" without specifying his age and deplored a "human drama".
The body was discovered around 6:40 a.m. in the landing gear well, sources said. "Beyond the human tragedy, this indicates a major security breach at Abidjan airport," an Ivorian security source told AFP, wondering how a ten-year-old child could gain access. to an airplane and if he benefited from complicity.
In recent years, several stowaways, including teenagers from Africa, have been found dead from the cold or run over in undercarriages.
Temperatures drop to -50 ° C between 9,000 and 10,000 meters, the altitude at which airliners fly. The landing gear housings are neither heated nor pressurized.
With AFP
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