The body of a stowaway from Kenya crashed in the garden of a London home after falling from the underside of a Kenya Airways flight. T...
The body of a stowaway from Kenya crashed in the garden of a
London home after falling from the underside of a Kenya Airways flight.
The man fell from the landing gear compartment of the plane
shortly before the flight was due to land at Heathrow Airport. A bag, water and
food were later found in the compartment by police.
Kenya Airways said: "It is unfortunate that a person
has lost his life by stowing aboard one of our aircraft and we express our
condolences."
The 6,840km flight from Nairobi to Heathrow "takes
eight hours and 50 minutes," it added. The flight left Kenya at around
7.20am on Sunday and landed at Heathrow at 3.50pm.
The body landed in the garden around 10 minutes before the
plane landed. Neighbours said the falling body narrowly missed landing on
a sunbather in his 20s as it smashed to the ground.
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| where the body landed |
His friend, who was inside the house, said: “He didn’t even
realise what it was to begin with. He was asleep and then there was a huge
impact.
“The body literally landed one metre away from him and was
obliterated. My friend was very shaken. There were a few of us in the house at the time and it was
lucky only one of us was in the garden.
“Nobody would have survived being hit. The impact was
horrific.”
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