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Two people were found dead inside the landing gear of a JetBlue plane after the aircraft landed in South Florida , authorities said.
The bodies were found Monday night during a routine post-flight maintenance inspection at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline said.“At this time, the identities of the individuals and the circumstances surrounding how they accessed the aircraft remain under investigation,” an airline spokesperson said.Local authorities said they were called to the airport around 11:30 p.m. local time and that both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene.
The plane had just completed a flight from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and landed just after 11 p.m., according toThe Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office is working to confirm the individuals’ causes of death. A representative there did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment Tuesday.A spokesperson for the airport referred HuffPost’s questions to the airline but said there were no impacts to airport operations due to the incident.
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