Sheriff’s office gives an update after teenagers from the Dominican Republic were found in the aircraft’s wheel well earlier this year.
A JetBlue A320 aircraft (Photo: Shutterstock | Markus Mainka)
Authorities have released the names of two teenagers found dead on a JetBlue aircraft at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport earlier this year.
The bodies were found during a post-flight maintenance inspection in the landing gear of an Airbus A320 in January.
Flightradar24 data showed flight 1801 operated with registration N644JB and arrived from New York-JFK just after 11 p.m. local time on Jan. 6.
According to a Miami Herald report, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the identities of both individuals on Thursday after “extensive DNA testing” as 18-year-old Jeik Aniluz Lusi and 16-year-old Elvis Borques Castillo of the Dominican Republic.
The report stated the same aircraft had flown to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic a day prior to the bodies being found. How or why the two got into the plane’s landing gear remains unknown.
January’s incident came just after another body was found in one of the main wheel wells of a United Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner in December 2024.
AirlineGeeks reached out to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office for comment.
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