The discovery came after the flight, which originated in Chicago, landed in Hawaii. The death is under investigation.

The bodies of two people were found in a landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida, according to the company. The two deceased people were found during a routine inspection on Monday night after the plane landed, JetBlue said.

A body has been found in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane that landed in Maui, Hawaii on Tuesday, Dec. 24.

A plane wheel well is a compartment in the wings or fuselage where the landing gear is stored when not in use. It is a hazardous location for stowaways, who could encounter low oxygen levels, hypothermia, crushing, or the risk of falling during the flight.

At this time, it is not clear how or when the person accessed the wheel well,” the airline said, noting it is working with law enforcement on the incident.

United Airlines said a dead body was discovered in the wheel well of one of its planes after it landed in Maui from Chicago on Christmas Eve.

United Airlines has confirmed that a body was found in the wheel well of one of its planes after landing in Maui.

A dead body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane at Maui’s Kahului Airport on Christmas Eve. United Airlines said the unidentified man’s body was discovered in the wheel well of one of the main landing gears on the Boeing 787-10 plane after it landed,

An investigation is underway after two people were found dead in a JetBlue plane's landing gear area at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Two stowaways were found dead late last night in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane that had landed at Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from New York's JFK. This comes two weeks after a body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane that had landed in Maui after departing from Chicago.