Ten-year-old child is found dead inside plane landing gear after flight from Ivory Coast to Paris
- 10-year-old child found dead inside plane landing gear at Paris airport yesterday
- The tragic youngster was on an Air France plane from Abidjan in the Ivory Coast
- Boeing 777 landed at 5pm with staff making the grisly discovery shortly after
A ten-year-old child has been found dead inside a plane landing gear at a Paris airport.
The tragic youngster was a stowaway on an Air France plane from Abidjan in the Ivory Coast to France, it has been reported.
The plane, a Boeing 777, landed in Paris shortly after 5pm on Tuesday with the grisly discovery made by airport staff shortly after.
One report has suggested that the deceased child was a boy.
A ten-year-old child has been found dead inside a plane landing gear at a Paris airport. The tragic youngster was a stowaway on an Air France plane from Abidjan in the Ivory Coast to France (file image of Air France plane)
Air France says an investigation into the death is ongoing.
In a statement, Air France said: ‘Air France confirms that the lifeless body of a stowaway was discovered in the well of the landing gear of the aircraft performing flight AF703 connecting Abidjan (ABJ) to Paris-Charles de Gaulle on January 7, 2020.’
The journey between Abidjan – a major urban city in the French-speaking west African country – and Paris takes around six hours.
Last year, the body of stowaway was found in the garden of a home near Heathrow Airport after falling from an aircraft flying from Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
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