Body of stowaway found at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
The body of a stowaway was found at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Monday, hidden in the undercarriage of a plane that had arrived from Toronto, Dutch border police said.
Spokesman Robert van Kapel told AFP that the man was on the landing gear of a plane previously flying from Lagos, arriving from the Canadian city operated by Dutch airline KLM. said to have been found.
“Investigations are ongoing,” he said, but could not give further information about the man’s identity or where he began his journey.
Such incidents “occur sporadically,” a spokesperson said.
Last year, a stowaway survived the 9,000-kilometer (5,590-mile) flight from Johannesburg to Amsterdam by hiding in the front wheels of a cargo plane.
In 2021, Border Police found the body of a Nigerian man in the landing gear of a plane arriving at Schiphol Airport.
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