{"id":36397,"date":"2024-12-26T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36397"},"modified":"2024-12-26T04:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:33:19","slug":"body-discovered-in-wheel-well-of-plane-at-maui-airport-on-christmas-eve-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36397","title":{"rendered":"Body discovered in wheel well of plane at Maui airport on Christmas Eve: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A dead body was discovered in the wheel well of an airplane upon arrival at Kahului Airport in Maui, Hawaii, on Christmas Eve, according to police who are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The Maui Police Department is currently conducting an active investigation regarding a deceased individual discovered on an incoming flight from the mainland this afternoon,&#8221; officials said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">United Airlines Flight 202 arrived at the Kahului Airport from Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport\u00a0on Dec. 24.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/russian-airports-disrupted-after-massive-overnight-drone-exchange\/story?id=117011937\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In a statement to ABC News, United Airlines confirmed that &#8220;a body was found in the wheel well of one of the main landing gears.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">United said the wheel well is only accessible from the outside of the aircraft and it&#8217;s not clear at this time how and when the unidentified individual accessed it.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/american-airlines-requests-ground-stop-flights-faa\/story?id=117078840\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The airline said it is working with law enforcement authorities on the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The aircraft was a Boeing 787-10, according to United.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/body-discovered-wheel-plane-maui-airport-christmas-eve\/story?id=117107626\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dead body was discovered in the wheel well of an airplane upon arrival at Kahului Airport in Maui, Hawaii, on Christmas Eve, according to police who are investigating the incident. &#8220;The Maui Police Department is currently conducting an active investigation regarding a deceased individual discovered on an incoming flight from the mainland this afternoon,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[5764,31788],"class_list":["post-36397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-aircraft","tag-landing-gear-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36399,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36397\/revisions\/36399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}