Two people have been found dead in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, authorities have said.
An investigation is underway after the shocking discovery was made at Terminal 3 of the airport on Monday evening, with Broward County sheriff’s deputies and a medical examiner reportedly in attendance.
A spokesperson for JetBlue told The Independent the victims’ bodies were discovered during a “routine post-flight maintenance inspection” and that both were already dead when they were found.
Their identities have not yet been released by investigators, who are working to determine how they came to be in the plane’s landing gear compartment.
“This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred,” the spokesperson said.
According to the carrier, the aircraft had most recently been deployed as Flight 1801 from New York’s JFK Airport.
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