Human Body Parts Fall From The Sky In Saudi Arabia. How?
It's raining human body parts in the city of Jeddah.
By Sadho Ram — 06 Jan 2014, 02:23 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
Human body parts fell from the sky in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on Sunday, with police saying they could be the remains of someone trapped in an aircraft's undercarriage bay
Residents of Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah were shocked to see human body parts suddenly falling from the night sky.
washingtontimes.com
According to police, the body that fell from the sky is alleged to have come from an airplane “from a plane's landing gear,” most likely by a person trapped in the plane’s wheel bay.
timesofisrael.com
Spokesman Nawaf bin Naser al-Bouq said in a statement that:
"Police received a telephone call at 2:30 am from a witness reporting the fall of human remains at an intersection in Mushrefa neighborhood" in the Red Sea city.
abc.net.auA photo claiming to be of the body of the fallen human being appeared in Arabic media and social media
Police are investigating the incident, but would not comment if the body parts are connected to a Saudi airplane that made an emergency landing early Sunday morning
The plane, carrying 315 passengers from Iran's city of Mashhad, was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia's Medina after the cockpit reported a malfunction in the rear wheel.
gulfbusiness.com
Twenty-nine people were injured during the approach.
Cases have been documented in the past of people - in a desperate attempt to cross borders - climbing into the landing gear of a plane before takeoff
Few survive the freezing temperatures when the plane is in the air.
yahoo.com
In 2010, the head of Beirut's airport security resigned after the death of a man who managed to sneak onto a runway undetected and hide in the wheel bay of a Saudi-bound jet.
washingtontimes.com
The man's body was found by a maintenance worker in Riyadh who was inspecting the landing gear of the Saudi-owned Nas Air Airbus 320 after it touched down there.