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NEW YORK -- A man's leg and part of his spine came crashing onto the roof of a woman's home in Nassau County near Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday morning, and a short while later the man himself was found dead in the wheel well of a South African Airways airliner that had just landed.

A customs inspector in New York first spotted a portion of the remains hanging off the wheel well of South Africa Airways Flight 203, which began in Johannesburg and stopped in Dakar, Senegal, said Tony Ciavolella, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Few details about the man were available on Tuesday, but officials said it was likely that he had been a stowaway and that he had been hurt -- perhaps crushed to death -- by the doors that protect the airplane's landing gear after takeoff.

A statement released by South African Airways said that it had agreed to keep the plane in New York for an extra day, and that the flight had landed "with no impact on our in-flight crew and passengers."