Japan officials seek to identity body in jet’s landing gear

JAPANESE authorities are trying to identify a body found inside one of the landing gear compartments on a Delta Airlines plane flight that arrived in Tokyo from New York.

The body of the apparent stowaway was clad only in a long-sleeved, plaid shirt and jeans, police at the Narita International Airport said. A mechanic found the man’s body lying inside the landing gear compartment of the Boeing 777-200 during maintenance after Delta Flight 59 from New York landed at Narita on Sunday night, police official Zenjiro Watanabe said.

“All we know is that he must have sneaked in just before departure, because it is impossible for him to enter the storage during flight,” Watanabe said.