Detroit Free Press staff

Police are investigating a body found today on the runway at Coleman A. Young International Airport in Detroit.

Air traffic controllers saw something, a guard went to investigate and discovered the body of a man around noon, police said.

He's been identified as a 61-year-old Detroit man, Detroit Police Sgt. Adam Madera said this afternoon.

“We haven’t located any trauma to the body,” he said.

Police don't know how the man's body got on the runway at the airport on the city's east side, commonly referred to as Detroit City Airport, and no cause of death has been determined yet.

An autopsy is scheduled Thursday, Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office spokesman Lloyd Jackson said.

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