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Author:  steve74 [ Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:49 pm ]
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Man found dead in street below Heathrow flight path could be illegal immigrant stowaway

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A stowaway appears to have plunged thousands of feet onto a quiet residential street after his frozen body dropped out of an aeroplane's undercarriage as it came in to land.

The body of the man, thought to be in his 30s and from North Africa, was found on a car parked in a road near London Heathrow Airport by shocked residents at 7:55am yesterday morning.

Locals in Mortlake, south west London, said the man had suffered multiple injuries and parts of his body had flown up to 20ft away ‘like a melon being whacked’ - but nobody else was injured.

Oh my, how horrific is that - not to mention messy? :shock:
Typically, the Daily Mail focusses on the illegal immigrant angle!
Author:  brataccas [ Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:46 pm ]
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if it was wheelie bin day he may of landed straight in the bin :shock:
Author:  Zippy [ Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:55 pm ]
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brataccas wrote:
if it was wheelie bin day he may have landed straight in the bin :shock:

Corrected.

Quite nasty, I hope nobody suffers PTSD. Not the kind of thing that happens every day fortunately.
Author:  hifidelity2 [ Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:05 pm ]
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KERSPLAT :!: :shock:
Author:  l3v1ck [ Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:41 pm ]
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Imagine filling the the diagram for "how did the accident happen" on the insurance form if it that was your car. They'd never believe you.
Author:  forquare1 [ Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:47 pm ]
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I just have "He jumped from 40 thousand feet without a parachute"...In my head.
Author:  Spreadie [ Wed Sep 12, 2012 7:45 am ]
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It's hard to imagine just how much would be left of a body, after hitting the ground at terminal velocity.

Then again, if the theory that he stowed away in the undercarriage is correct, he was probably frozen solid after a few hours at -40.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:06 pm ]
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Spreadie wrote:
It's hard to imagine just how much would be left of a body, after hitting the ground at terminal velocity.

Then again, if the theory that he stowed away in the undercarriage is correct, he was probably frozen solid after a few hours at -40.

But wouldn't he have shattered on impact a bit like the T1000 did after the liquid nitrogen?
Author:  l3v1ck [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:20 pm ]
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Doubt it . Liquid nitrogen is waaaaay colder than -40c.
Author:  JJW009 [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:55 pm ]
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OP's quote does say "parts of his body had flown up to 20ft away ‘like a melon being whacked’", and -40 is pretty deep frozen. I guess "fragmented" rather than than "shattered".
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:04 pm ]
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The human body is still largely water.

Splattered might be more appropriate.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:03 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
Doubt it . Liquid nitrogen is waaaaay colder than -40c.

Yes but even at -40 the body would freeze. Would it really make much difference if it were -40 or -160?
Author:  l3v1ck [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:13 am ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
l3v1ck wrote:
Doubt it . Liquid nitrogen is waaaaay colder than -40c.

Yes but even at -40 the body would freeze. Would it really make much difference if it were -40 or -160?

In terms of "shattering", it probably would make a difference.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:09 am ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Yes but even at -40 the body would freeze. Would it really make much difference if it were -40 or -160?

In terms of "shattering", it probably would make a difference.

Not having liquid Nitrogen, or a spare dead body handy to confirm I will accept that. Material properties can be very different at different temperatures. Also if it was going to shatter after being at -40 it would have shattered on the London street, though could it have heated up sufficiently to change impact properties? A question for Mythbusters! :D
Author:  l3v1ck [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:04 pm ]
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Or (even if a body at -40c could shatter) could he have frozen to that point in a flight. Just becasue it's -40 in the wheel well doesn't mean his body core would have time to drop that low after death.
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