A stowaway has died after fa
lling from a British Airways jet on to an office block in southwest London.
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| Dead stowaway was found on building very close by. |
Police were called about 9am on Thursday morning to attend to a body that was found on a busy road's roof in Kew Richmond.The stowaway was said to have got on the flight from South Africa.Authorities heaved a sigh of relief cos if the man had landed on the streets of the bust Kew road,it could have been a lot more serious situation with more casualties.
This sounds totally unbelievable and mad! How could anyone think of
surviving temperatures of minus 60c??And what is more incredible is that his fellow stowaway survived,although he is in serious critical condition in a hospital.
The victim landed on an office in London after clinging to a Heathrow-bound passenger plane for more than 8,000 miles
He and another man are believed to have clung on to the passenger plane as it flew more than 8,000 miles from Johannesburg in South Africa to Heathrow.
The second man, aged between 25 and 30, is in a serious condition in a west London hospital after miraculously surviving the ordeal.
The victim died as the Boeing 747 came into land over Richmond at around 9.30am on Thursday.
He reportedly landed on the roof of NotOnTheHighStreet.com in Kew Road.
I cannot imagine the shock and the trauma of the person who made the discovery after the stowaway had fallen 8,000 feet from the sky! Gos! How terrible!
I cannot imagine the shock and the trauma of the person who made the discovery after the stowaway had fallen 8,000 feet from the sky! Gos! How terrible!
A spokesman for the retailer was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Sky News.
British Airways described it as a "very rare case" and said it is working with police in London and Johannesburg to establish the facts.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: "Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found the body of a dead man on the roof of a business premises.
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained.
"A post-mortem examination will be held in due course and inquiries are ongoing to establish the male's identity. No arrests have been made."
There have been previous cases of stowaways falling from planes in the Heathrow flight path area in southwest London.
In September 2012, Jose Matada died after falling from the undercarriage of a Heathrow-bound flight from Angola on to a road in Mortlake, about a mile from Richmond.
The 26-year-old from Mozambique is believed to have survived temperatures of up to minus 60C for most of the 12-hour flight, an inquest heard.
He was "dead or nearly dead" by the time he hit the ground.
In July 2013, a suspected stowaway from Turkey was found frozen to death in the undercarriage of a BA jet from Istanbul to Heathrow.
He died after facing temperatures of minus 60C during the four-hour flight.
The sad thing is that,this will not be the last time that we hear news of a stowaway plunged to his death.
The sad thing is that,this will not be the last time that we hear news of a stowaway plunged to his death.