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Is the wheel well directly accessible from within the plane itself? If the pilot were made aware of someone in the wheel well during the flight would they stil
by secondcoming 6y ago
Is the wheel well directly accessible from within the plane itself?
If the pilot were made aware of someone in the wheel well during the flight would they still lower the gear when landing?
- walrus01 6y agono, it's not, and separated by bulkheads from the pressurized area. I'm not aware of any wheel wells that have anything like an intrusion sensor.
- lgeorget 6y agoWell, you have to land at some point and doing it without the landing gear lowered would put in danger the life of all crew members and passengers so... Belly landing can be done and have occurred in the past of course but it's certainly not without risk.
- Clewza313 6y agoYou could maybe risk a landing without the front wheel, but the article notes that stowaways prefer the larger rear wheels, which take the brunt of the impact on landing and are thus also much more dangerous to land without.
- spoonjim 6y agoThe wheel well is not accessible from the plane. And of course the pilot would lower the gear when landing, they are not going to do a belly landing and destroy tens of millions of dollars of property and risk everyone on board's life to try to save one stowaway.
- twic 6y agoA belly landing is probably not great for anyone in the wheel well either.
- FearlessNebula 6y agoIt would become an oven