The body of a suspected stowaway fell hundreds of metres from a plane flying over southwest London, United Kingdom, landing in the garden of a man\u2019s home as he sunbathed.<\/p>\n
Police said it was recovered from the Clapham garden after apparently falling from the landing gear casing of a Kenya Airways flight bound for London\u2019s Heathrow airport on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur neighbour was sunbathing in the garden at the time and the man landed a metre away,\u201d<\/em> local resident David Carmalt told the London Evening Standard newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a miracle no one else was killed,\u201d he said. \u201cOur sympathies are with our neighbour and the poor man … You wonder how desperate someone has to be to try to stow away on a plane.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It is believed the man fell from the plane as it lowered its wheels on approach to the airport.<\/p>\n
London\u2019s Metropolitan Police said in a statement on Monday it was trying to identify the man who is suspected to have boarded the plane in Kenya\u2019s capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n
\u201cA bag, water and some food were discovered in the landing gear compartment once [the plane] landed at the airport,\u201d<\/em> police said, adding that the death is not being treated as suspicious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Kenya Airways said in a statement that the airline was working with authorities to investigate the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is unfortunate that a person has lost his life by stowing aboard one of our aircraft and we express our condolences,\u201d<\/em> the statement read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Stowaways have previously landed in trees and on shop roofs in London after falling from planes on the approach to Heathrow.<\/p>\n
Many were dead before they fell because of the freezing temperatures and lack of oxygen outside the aircraft\u2019s pressurised passenger cabin.<\/p>\n
Jose Matada fell to his death in 2012 from a British Airways flight from Angola. He had not been reported missing and it took six months to identify him.<\/p>\n
The inquest into his death heard he endured temperatures of between minus 50 and minus 60 Celsius and suffered a lack of oxygen before he fell.<\/p>\n
In 2015, the body of a stowaway on a British Airways flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Heathrow landed on a shop in Richmond, southwest London.<\/p>\n
A second stowaway survived the 10-hour flight and was later found in the undercarriage of the plane.\u2014 Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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