Metropolitan Police officers are working to establish the identity of a man believed to have fallen from the landing gear compartment of an aeroplane.
Police were called at 15:39hrs on Sunday, 30 June to a residential address in Offerton Road, Clapham after a body was discovered in a garden. Officers attended with the London Ambulance Service. The body of a person, believed to be a man (age unknown) was found. A post-mortem examination will be carried out in due course. Police are working to establish the man’s identity. A crime scene was put in place but has since been closed. The death is not being treated as suspicious. One neighbour said that they heard a “whomp” sound as the body fell into the garden, according to the BBC. “I went upstairs to look out of a window,” the witness said. “At first I thought it was a tramp asleep in the garden. He had all of his clothes on and everything. I had a closer look and saw there was blood all over the walls of the garden. His head was not in a good way. I realised immediately that he had fallen.” The man’s body was traced back to Kenya Airways flight 100, which originated from Nairobi, according to a tweet from Kenya Airports. Enquiries are underway to establish the full circumstances. At this point, police believe the man was a stowaway and had fallen from the landing gear of an inbound Kenya Airways flight to Heathrow Airport. A bag, water and some food were discovered in the landing gear compartment once it landed at the airport. The 6,840km flight takes eight hours and 50 minutes,”Kenya Airways spokesperson said. “It is unfortunate that a person has lost his life by stowing aboard one of our aircraft and we express our condolences.” Enquiries continue, led by the South Central Command Unit and the Met’s Aviation Policing Command. Officers will be liaising with the airline and international authorities.
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