A stowaway has reportedly died after he fell from a Kenya Airways plane flying over London and dropped into a residential garden on Sunday.
According to reports, the body which has been traced to the undercarriage of the Kenya Airways flight KQ 100 from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi landed just feets from a sunbathing man.
A statement from London’s Metropolitan Police on Monday said that the victim appeared to have fallen from the landing gear compartment as the plane approached London’s Heathrow Airport.
The statement said the Police were called to an address in Offerton Road in the South London neighbourhood of Clapham at 15:39 hrs on Sunday after a body was discovered in a garden.
It further disclosed that a bag, water and some food were discovered in the landing gear compartment of the plane once it touched down at Heathrow Airport, adding that officials are working to establish the victim’s identity as a post-mortem examination will be carried out in due course.
The incident is however not new. In 2015, a stowaway on a British Airways plane from Johannesburg fell on a roof during the jet’s approach to Heathrow.
A second man who was hiding in the undercarriage of the same plane was hospitalized with severe injuries.
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