Japanese authorities were seeking American help Monday to identify a body found in the landing gear compartment of a plane that arrived in Tokyo from New York.
A mechanic made the grim discovery after Delta Flight 59 landed at Tokyo's Narita International Airport about 6:05 p.m. local time Sunday, a Chiba prefecture police spokesman said.
The victim, believed to be a stowaway, was a black man clad in a long-sleeved, plaid shirt and jeans, police said.
The body, found inside of the door of the landing gear storage compartment on the Boeing 777, had no visible injuries except signs of frostbite.
The temperature in that part of the plane falls to about 58 degrees below zero during flight, officials said.
"Doctors say he probably froze to death and that he suffered a shortage of oxygen" at an altitude of more than about 30,000 feet, a police official said.
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