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By Arlene Fleming, About.com Guide to Air Travel

Caught in the wheel

Monday June 13, 2005
Body parts literally fell from the sky and into a backyard, just a few miles from JFK. It seems a stowaway lost his chance at freedom. As a South African Airways' airplane dropped its landing gear, getting set for landing at New York's JFK airport, parts of a body, including a leg with shoe still attached, plunged from the sky and landed in the yard of a private home. The aircraft was damaged, and the identity of the stowaway has yet to be determined. The New York Daily News reports...
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