Human Body Parts Fall FromSky In Saudi Arabia

Human body parts fell from the sky
in the Saudi city of Jeddah Sunday,
with police saying they could be the
remains of someone trapped in an
aircraft’s undercarriage bay.
“Police received a telephone call at
2:30 am from a witness reporting
the fall of human remains at an
intersection in Mushrefa
neighbourhood” in the Red Sea city,
spokesman Nawaf bin Naser al-
Bouq said in a statement.
Initial indications were that the
remains “fell from a plane’s landing
gear,” said Bouq, adding that
investigations were ongoing.
The report came after a Saudi
Arabian Airlines jet made an
emergency landing in the city of
Medina in the west of the kingdom,
injuring 29 people on Sunday.
That aircraft had been travelling
from Iran’s second city of Mashhad
with 315 people on board.
A spokesman for the General
Authority of Civil Aviation said there
was no connection between the
emergency landing in Medina and
the Jeddah incident.
In a desperate attempt to cross
borders, some people at poorly
monitored airports climb inside the
bays housing aircraft landing gear.
Most of them freeze to death once
the aircraft reach cruising altitude,
but some survive.
In 2010, the head of Beirut’s airport
security resigned after the death of
a man who managed to hide in the
undercarriage bay of a Saudi-bound
jet.
The man’s body was found by a
maintenance worker who was
inspecting the gear of the Saudi-
owned Nas Air Airbus A-320 after it
landed in Riyadh.