Stowaway's Leg Falls From Sky Near J-F-K Airport NEW YORK (AP) - Police say it was the leg of a stowaway that fell from the wheel well of a plane approaching New York's J-F-K Airport this morning. The leg landed on the roof of a detached garage in Long Island and bounced into the back yard. A resident says she got home from work and saw the leg -- with a sneaker on the foot -- lying in the grbutt. Officials say more remains were found after the plane landed at Kennedy. The South African Airways jet was lowering its landing gear when the body part fell out. The plane left Johannesburg and stopped in Senegal on its way to New York. Grisly Surprise For N.Y. Homeowner SOUTH FLORAL PARK, N.Y., June 7, 2005 (AP) A stunned Long Island homeowner found a body part in her back yard that apparently fell from the wheel well of a plane coming in for a landing today at Kennedy Airport. A Port Authority spokesman says more remains were found on a South African Airways flight after it landed at Kennedy. Police suspect the remains were that of a male stowaway. The spokesman wouldn't confirm that the incidents at the airport and in South Floral Park, Long Island were related, saying, "It's still under investigation." Police in Nbuttau County received a call about a man's leg found in the backyard of a house in South Floral Park. It apparently had hit the roof of a garage and bounced to the ground. The South African Airways flight had originated in Johannesburg and made one stop in Dakar, Senegal. Body parts fall from plane to LI backyard The buttociated Press June 7, 2005, 5:08 PM EDT A man's leg and partial torso fell from the wheel well of a South African jetliner on landing approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport, hit a garage roof and bounced into the backyard of a Long Island home, authorities said Tuesday. Homeowner Pam Hearne, of Floral Park, said she heard "a loud crash" a little before 7 a.m. and thought it was her neighbor loading a van with furniture. She told police she left home and did not discover the leg until she returned about 10:30 a.m. Hearne, a special education teacher, said that when she first saw the leg, probably belonging to a stowaway, in the grbutt "it didn't look real." "But I am very glad that I live where I do," she said, "so I don't have to run for my life like this man probably was doing." Why Higher Standards for the U.S. 1638That is true, but that is NOT what YOU are doing! You are just tossing bullpoo right and left. AND privateshead, in case you TOO try to vehemently deny I posted... Nbuttau County police sealed off the scene with yellow tape. The man's leg, wearing an Adidas sneaker and a sock, sat in the yard until mid-afternoon, when the Queens medical examiner's office took it away in a plastic bag. Hearne said there apparently was some kind of jurisdictional dispute over the handling of it. Other remains were found in the South African Airways Airbus 340 after it landed at Kennedy, said Tony Ciavolella, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which handles the area's airports. Police suspect the remains were those of a stowaway, Ciavolella said. He would not confirm that the incidents at the airport and Long Island were related, saying they were under investigation. A customs agent meeting the plane, Flight 203 from Johannesburg and Dakar, Senegal, discovered another leg hanging from the left wheel well, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said. Floral Park, about 5 1-2 miles from the Queens airport, would be about where a pilot would routinely lower the landing gear, Peters said. The jetliner's landing gear rotates inward as it retracts and outward for landing. It was unclear how far the leg fell, but the impact dented the shingled roof of the garage. There have been cases of stowaways being crushed by the mechanism in aircraft wheel wells and perishing from the extreme cold at high albreastude. South African Airways said in a statement it was working closely with airport authorities and police in investigating the apparent stowaway attempt and identifying factors that contributed to it. The airline said the flight landed with "no impact" on the pbuttengers and crew. It said the aircraft was to remain at the airport for at least a day. A Floral Park neighbor, Mabel Jeffries, said the incident was not scary because the plane didn't fall. JEFFY'S LIES ANSWERED AGAINNeed some cites on the Germans executed in Malmedy????? REALLY? Now if I provide them what will you do? CONCEDE or continue your BULLpooTING Jeff? Let's start with some NAMES............................ "The... "That," Jeffries said, "would be scary."
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