Flight 'stowaway' body found in London garden

[Still Waters]

A suspected stowaway who is believed to have fallen from the landing gear of a flight into Heathrow Airport has been found dead in a London garden.

The body - believed to be that of a man - was found in Offerton Road, Clapham just before 15:40 BST on Sunday.

Police said it was thought the individual fell from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi.

A neighbour said the body fell a metre away from a resident who had been sunbathing in the garden.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48830212

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The body - believed to be that of a man

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The stowaway who fell from a Kenya Airways plane in London is likely to have been an employee at Nairobi's main airport, a Kenyan official has said.

The plane was flying from the airport in Kenya's capital to Heathrow when a body fell into a garden on Sunday.

The man most probably had legal access to the airport, Kenya's Civil Aviation Authority chief told the BBC.

A post-mortem examination would be carried out and the death was not being treated as suspicious, UK police said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-48852316

 

[Eldorado]

It was Sunday 30 June 2019, a balmy summer’s afternoon, and Wil, a 31-year-old software engineer, was lounging on an inflatable airbed outside his house in Clapham, south-west London. He wore pyjamas and drank Polish beer. As he chatted to his housemate in the sunshine, planes on their way to Heathrow airport made their final approach overhead. On his phone, Wil showed his housemate an app that tells users the route and model of any passing plane. He tested the app on one plane, and then held his phone up again, shielding his eyes from the sun and squinting into the sky.

Then he saw something falling. “At first I thought it was a bag,” he said. “But after a few seconds it turned into quite a large object, and it was falling fast.” Maybe a piece of machinery had fallen from the landing gear, he thought, or a suitcase from the cargo hold. But then he half-remembered an article he had read years before, about people stowing away on planes. He didn’t want to believe it, but as the object got nearer and nearer, it became impossible to deny. “In the last second or two of it falling, I saw limbs,” said Wil. “I was convinced that it was a human body.”

UK Guardian 'long read' article

[Hankenhunter]

I see your gloomy dead guy story, and raise you one live one. An old favorite from my childhood.

Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was an American airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee&ved=2ahUKEwjI5NTX-__vAhXCVc0KHcphBGEQFjABegQIAxAF&usg=AOvVaw20ffOjwuUNjqYiLFwaCo0w

This story made a 9 year olds day. 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2021 by Hankenhunter