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Human Remains Fall From South African Flight
Jason L. Miller | Staff Writer | 2005-06-08
When Pam Hearne of Long Island heard "a very loud bang" at 7 AM outside her South Floral Park home near JFK Airport, she judged it to be a cracking tree or noisy neighbors. Three and half hours later, she noticed a human leg and part of a torso in her yard.
"I thought it was a really sick joke," said Ms. Hearne, a special education teacher, after examining the charred limb sporting a white Adidas sneaker. Police confirmed for her later that the body parts that left a watermelon-sized hole in her detached garage were indeed human.
The human remains appear to have fallen from thousands of feet above during the landing approach of a South African Airways flight from Dakar, Senegal. At five and half miles from JFK Airport, Ms. Hearne's home would be about where landing gear would have been lowered.
A New York customs inspector was the first to spot the rest of the man still stuck to the wheel well of South African Airways Flight 203, which began in Johannesburg and stopped in Dakar, departing again at 11:40 PM EST.
The pilot noticed "unusual vibrations" during takeoff but a diagnostic check returned a verdict that everything was normal.
[ business_top_business ]
Human Remains Fall From South African Flight
Jason L. Miller | Staff Writer | 2005-06-08
When Pam Hearne of Long Island heard "a very loud bang" at 7 AM outside her South Floral Park home near JFK Airport, she judged it to be a cracking tree or noisy neighbors. Three and half hours later, she noticed a human leg and part of a torso in her yard.
"I thought it was a really sick joke," said Ms. Hearne, a special education teacher, after examining the charred limb sporting a white Adidas sneaker. Police confirmed for her later that the body parts that left a watermelon-sized hole in her detached garage were indeed human.
The human remains appear to have fallen from thousands of feet above during the landing approach of a South African Airways flight from Dakar, Senegal. At five and half miles from JFK Airport, Ms. Hearne's home would be about where landing gear would have been lowered.
A New York customs inspector was the first to spot the rest of the man still stuck to the wheel well of South African Airways Flight 203, which began in Johannesburg and stopped in Dakar, departing again at 11:40 PM EST.
The pilot noticed "unusual vibrations" during takeoff but a diagnostic check returned a verdict that everything was normal.
