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PILTDOWN MAN

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The undercarriage bay does get partial pressurisation though not normally enough to sustain life, however a lot of ducts run around the bays from the engines/air conditioning systems. Some are known to have done their homework and attempt to wrap themselves around these ducts.

In about 1999 I was when working for BA as an aircraft engineer we had 757 come on the hangar. It had landed about an 1 hour before. I lowered the main undercarriage doors at which point a maintenance cleaner walking by started screaming. There was a frozen young man wrapped around structure obviously very dead. It was Caledonian aircraft and had come from Africa.

We later found out a second person had fallen from the aircraft coming into to land. A farmer found him in a field.
 




bha100

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PILTDOWN MAN said:
The undercarriage bay does get partial pressurisation though not normally enough to sustain life, however a lot of ducts run around the bays from the engines/air conditioning systems. Some are known to have done their homework and attempt to wrap themselves around these ducts.

In about 1999 I was when working for BA as an aircraft engineer we had 757 come on the hangar. It had landed about an 1 hour before. I lowered the main undercarriage doors at which point a maintenance cleaner walking by started screaming. There was a frozen young man wrapped around structure obviously very dead. It was Caledonian aircraft and had come from Africa.

We later found out a second person had fallen from the aircraft coming into to land. A farmer found him in a field.
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That was what i don't get, how did he not die from lack of oxygen or freeze to death ?

Hopefully that programme may give some answers
 


Stat Brother

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something, something, something, cod, something.
 


PILTDOWN MAN

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bha100 said:
That was what i don't get, how did he not die from lack of oxygen or freeze to death ?

Hopefully that programme may give some answers
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If you can get near the ducting you may, just may, get enough heat to keep you alive just. As far as air to breathe, once the doors are shut while it doesn't form part of the pressurised fuselage it is in a moderately sealed environment. Now back to the ducting there's an allowable leakage from these therefore hot air at high pressure may just pressurise the area enough to sustain life, very unlikely but. Undoubtedly he would have been unconscious.
 






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This is a powerful story.
He arrived in the UK with an important statement from the people of South Africa who feel they are not getting the answers they deserve and are being ignored.
He was unable to speak upon landing due to cold and fatigue and shock of losing his friend.
The airport staff showed compassion and took him inside and gave him a blanket and a hot drink to warm him up.
He was trying to speak but his throat was still dry so they gave him water.
The water soothed his dry throat and he summoned the strength to say the words he was sent here to say.
He took a deep breath, looked up at the faces of the concerned staff in front of him and said.....

"Where's Percy Tau?"
 






Official Old Man

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Aug 27, 2011
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Before posting comedy comments on this, at least look at the page about this show.
Two people started a journey to what they hoped would be the promised land. Two people. One sadly fell to his death and one survived the ordeal. That's not funny.
How bad must their lives have been to climb into an aircraft knowing there was a very good chance they would not survive?
 




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I remember the good times said:
Before posting comedy comments on this, at least look at the page about this show.
Two people started a journey to what they hoped would be the promised land. Two people. One sadly fell to his death and one survived the ordeal. That's not funny.
How bad must their lives have been to climb into an aircraft knowing there was a very good chance they would not survive?
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I have to agree, it's a very sad story.

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I remember the good times said:
Before posting comedy comments on this, at least look at the page about this show.
Two people started a journey to what they hoped would be the promised land. Two people. One sadly fell to his death and one survived the ordeal. That's not funny.
How bad must their lives have been to climb into an aircraft knowing there was a very good chance they would not survive?
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Agree it's not a comedy moment but I'm also not so sure that: "climb into an aircraft knowing there was a very good chance they would not survive" was actually a thought that crossed their minds. Cold temperature and lack of oxygen kills humans quite quickly above 26,000 feet [aka the death zone] - unless they were aircraft maintenance engineers who had specialist knowledge, I'd suggest they were Darwin Award entrants and one failed.
 


carlzeiss

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Pint of Ale and a Burger said:
This is a powerful story.
He arrived in the UK with an important statement from the people of South Africa who feel they are not getting the answers they deserve and are being ignored.
He was unable to speak upon landing due to cold and fatigue and shock of losing his friend.
The airport staff showed compassion and took him inside and gave him a blanket and a hot drink to warm him up.
He was trying to speak but his throat was still dry so they gave him water.
The water soothed his dry throat and he summoned the strength to say the words he was sent here to say.
He took a deep breath, looked up at the faces of the concerned staff in front of him and said.....

"Where's Percy Tau?"
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If Percy had claimed asylum rather that applying for a work permit then perhaps he would have been eligible for a place in our squad long ago .
 


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