Coroners and sheriff’s deputies descended on a Jet Blue plane at the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida late Monday after two bodies were found in the landing gear compartment.
JetBlue issued a statement to the Deseret News Tuesday confirming there were two people found deceased in the landing gear of one of the company’s aircrafts. The bodies were found during a routine inspection.
“This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred,” per the JetBlue Communications release.
How the two people wound up in the compartment is unknown and an investigation is underway.
The aircraft had traveled from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, departing at 8:20 p.m. and landing in Florida at 11:03 p.m., per CBS.
The two people were pronounced dead at the scene and it is unclear how long the two of them had been in the compartment, per The New York Times.
The plane’s day started in Kingston, Jamaica, it then flew to JFK and next to Salt Lake City, before returning to JFK for the final flight to Florida.