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Old 12-11-2010, 07:20 AM
 
Location: Quiet Corner Connecticut
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He snuck aboard a US Airways flight from Charlotte to Boston, but nobody knows what he was doing going to Boston in the first place. Probably just ran away and jumped aboard something without realizing he was gonna die because of the cold air way up there and the lack of air pressure.

Mass. authorities yesterday are 99% sure he fell from the plane on approach to Logan Airport in Boston.
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Old 12-11-2010, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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It's not really that unusual. You hear about someone like this at least once a year, though usually they freeze to death or suffocate because their stupid asses don't realize how cold it is at 36,000 feet or how thin the air is. These idiots for some reason think that the air recirculator provides oxygen to the wheels. This kid was too damn stupid to get out of the way of the wheels as they were coming up and got chewed up.
well approximately traveling 550 MPH @ 36,000 ft high by that time he would of blacked from out lack of oxygen and have severe hypothermia and be getting frost bite and be dead pretty fast.

he learned about the atmosphere (pressure, temperature, density, etc.) the hard way
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Old 12-11-2010, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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DA: Teen likely fell to death from jet - BostonHerald.com

N.C. teen’s body probably fell from jet - The Boston Globe

it's very sad but pretty alarming also. at the time his body was found, it as assumed to be murder. Milton borders the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston and there was a recent rash of brazen crimes in that area, including a quadruple murder where two of the victims was a 2 year old and his mother and an incident where 3 teens living there robbed and murdered a pizza delivery man (I think there was also a case of two bodies found on lawns in Mattapan around that time). for a while, people just assumed he was a local kid from that area who was murdered across the border in Milton. after investigating, they realized the area where his body was found was directly underneath a flight path. I think for these reasons, the story has stayed out of the national news. it's only just coming to light, but I'm sure it's being suppressed due to holiday travel. you'd think a story like this would be front page news, not Miley Cyrus caught w/ a bong at a party

yes, you have to wonder how a teen got into the wheel well at a major airport. I used to work at O'Hare and you can't even get on the tarmac w/o a certain colored badge. maybe the set up is different at the NC airport, IDK, but there's no way he accessed that wheel well via the airport (too much security). he may have hopped an outer fence. if that's the case, that's just another slam against the security theater that that popped up recently. it should be noted that, according to the article, something like this hasn't happened since 1972

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