Stowaway found dead in plane in Moscow

A man who stowed away in the chassis of a plane was found frozen to death on landing in Moscow's Vnukovo airport, Russian investigators said on Thursday.

"According to a preliminary conclusion, the Afro-American man died from freezing. The man was apparently flying without a ticket," the Investigative Committee said on its website.

The body was found in a compartment inside the plane's chassis.

The I-Fly airline's A-330 plane had flown in from Rimini, Italy, at 1:00 am local time (2100 GMT) on Thursday.