BAGGAGE JUST TOOK ON A WHOLE NEW MEANING ...

You know, we all have "baggage" in our lives ... things we wish he had said ... things we wish we hadn't said ... things we wish we had done ... and those which we look back at and wish we hadn't done ...

This is a "Hadn't Done" story ...

Imagine you are working for an airlines ... not one of the cabin crew, or one of those in the tower directing air traffic (what a stressful job!) ... or even one of those doing tickets or screening passangers ...

Nope - you're one of the Tarmack crew ... 

Those people responsible for refueling ...
Diresting the plane to the gate (the guys with the funny flashlights)
Loading and Unloading of luggage ...
Looking over the outside of the aircraft for anything unusual ...

Ah - now here the story begins ... kind of ...

You see, a Jet Blue aircraft landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida yesterday (Monday 2025 January 06) and everything seemed to be okay ...

No bird strikes ....
No rude passengers ...
No one seemingly having gotten air-sick ...

The plane pulled up to the terminal ...
Let the passengers off ...
Unloaded the luggage ....
Pulled away from the hanger to do the next step ...

So while it was getting maintainence - where they fill the "gas tanks" (Fill 'Er Up!) and getting the septic tank cleaned out and rinsed down ...

While all that was going on - the inspection began ...

"Fuselage looks okay" Check
Wings all here ... Check
Tail all there ... check
Wheels still have good tread on them ... check

But ... wait ... what's that hanging down from the top?  Did a cable of some sort break??

No - it was an arm ... and it was ATTACHED TO A BODY ...

Actually - I have no idea how they managed to find the 2 BODIES in the wheel well of the aircraft ...

Here's what I do know ... from the news ...

2 male bodies were found in A wheel well of the Jet Blue plane ... it was a "cargo" plane, so there really wasn't supposed to be any passengers

I made the rest of that story up in my head -- let's get that straight right now ... NO PASSENGERS, NO GATE ... JUST PACKAGES ...

My understanding is ... they have no idea WHO these men are ... or where they came from ...

It reminds me a lot of the scene in "Commando" where Arnold Schwartenzeggar's character escapes from the plane by jumping out the wheel well into a swampy area at the end of the runway ...

MY GUESS is these were a couple of ground crew - loaders - who accidentally got caught in the back of the cargo area (maybe they fell asleep) when the plane got closed up and took off.

Somehow, I doubt there's any sort of telecom system in the cargo area - so how could they let the pilots know they were there??

Pounding wouldn't work - the sound of the engines would have been way too loud - plus the pilots would have been going through their checklists and talking to the tower for clearance.

And unless there was something like an animal in the cargo area, there wouldn't have been any need to "pressurize" it nor pipe in air ...

There would be no reason to worry about things back there getting too cold, so they would have flown very high - where the air is extremely thin, higher than even Mount Everest ...

My guess is .... the men figured this out fast and looked for a way out.

The landing gear!

But the timing has to be just right ... if you jump while it's over the tarmack - you're a sttain on the asphalt ... if you wait until after the gear is up - you can't get out, your path is blocked ...
And, even if there's a swampy spot to land, you likely will be hitting it at such a speed that you will break every bone in your body!!!

There is a statemen from Jet Blue ... but I will post tthat seperately ...

I feel bad for these mens families ...

But ... you have to wonder ... why hasn't anyone noiced them MISSING yet???