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The body of a man that fell from a plane hit the ground just one metre from a man sunbathing in his back garden in London, a neighbour has claimed

Scotland Yard are working to establish the identity of the suspected stowaway, who is thought to have fallen from the landing gear compartment of an inbound Kenya Airways flight to Heathrow Airport.

Police were called on Sunday afternoon to a residential address in Offerton Road, Clapham, after the body was discovered in a garden.

One neighbour described hearing a “whomp” as the body hit the ground, and that the body was an “ice block”.

The neighbour told the Press Association: “I heard a ‘whomp’ – I went upstairs to look out of a window. At first I though 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.

“So I went outside and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken.

“He had been sunbathing and he landed one metre away from him.”

Describing the victim, he said: “One of the reasons his body was so intact was because his body was an ice block.”

The neighbour, who asked not to be named, said that a plane spotter, who had been following the flight on an plane tracking app from Clapham Common, had seen the body fall.

He said: “I spoke to Heathrow Airport this morning to ask if they were aware of this.

“If it had been two seconds later, he would have landed on the common where there were hundreds of people – my kids were in the garden 15 minutes before [he fell].

“I spoke to Heathrow. They said this happens once every five years.”

Another neighbour said she had heard a thump, but thought it was falling scaffolding from nearby building works.

Referring to her neighbours, she said: “My heart goes out to them, they’re going to have to live with that for the rest of their lives.”

Officers attended with the London Ambulance Service.

The death is not being treated as suspicious and the crime scene that was put in place has now closed.

A post-mortem examination will be carried out in due course.

Police are now trying to find out who the man was and enquiries are underway to establish the full circumstances.

A bag, water and some food were discovered in the landing gear compartment once it landed at the airport.

In 2012, Jose Matada fell to his death from a British Airways flight inbound from Angola.

Matada, originally from Mozambique, was found on the pavement in East Sheen on September 9.

An inquest into his death heard he is believed to have survived freezing temperatures of up to minus 60C for most of the 12-hour flight.

But he was understood to be “dead or nearly dead” by the time he hit the ground.

In 2015, the body of a man landed on a shop in Richmond having clung on in the undercarriage of a plane from Johannesburg in South Africa to Heathrow.



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I'd be traumatised

[Nicky91]

i'd have a trauma too if i saw that happen right in front of me

[Wizard.]

Not this happening once every five years.

[Tony Montana]

Holy **** that's horrific!

I'd be traumatised too.

[Denver]

Surely they should be doing checks on planes as it has happened before?

[bots]

It puts a new meaning on "dropping by" for sure. Clearly airport security is not tight enough in Kenya

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

It puts a new meaning on "dropping by" for sure. Clearly airport security is not tight enough in Kenya

Yes Kenya
Sloppy nation

[RileyH]

“I heard a ‘whomp’ – I went upstairs to look out of a window. At first I though it was a tramp asleep in the garden.

me

[Marsh.]

I had a closer look and saw there was blood all over the walls of the garden.

Omg.

This made me think of Sarah's death in Hollyoaks where all you saw was blood splattered across the field. I'd honestly need therapy.

[Livia]

Bloody hell that's grim.

[Beso]

Don't all the bones smash on impact making anything but a thwomp sound?

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Don't all the bones smash on impact making anything but a thwomp sound?

Describing the victim, he said: “One of the reasons his body was so intact was because his body was an ice block.”

here you have your answer i think, his body was intact since he was frozen

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

here you have your answer i think, his body was intact since he was frozen

Wouldn't his whole body have shattered into pieces then?

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Wouldn't his whole body have shattered into pieces then?

Judging by the explosion of blood, probably.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Wouldn't his whole body have shattered into pieces then?

yeah you would think that, you get shattering into pieces from liquid nitrogen for example


but maybe the air was cold enough for him to ice but not at the degrees of liquid nitrogen


but i'm no science expert, i guess an autopsy on the man could reveal more as to why he was so intact despite being an ''ice block'' as witnesses described

[UserSince2005]

Last time I was out nairobi airport I couldnt even get a ****ing external battery pack past the entrance, wonder how he managed to sneak into the underside of a plane.

[Beso]

It is now being treated as a sudden death, met police have reported.

[LaLaLand]

Jesus this is horrific

[Firewire]

Khan's London?

[Liam-]

This is obviously very tragic, but describing the sound as a ‘whomp’ is making me scream

[Oliver_W]

Was there a message written on him like Con Air?

[Kizzy]

Humbling to not have one inkling of what it must feel like to be that desperate to risk a hideous death whether by air or sea.

[Oliver_W]

Imagine having to clean the garden after that

[Ammi]

...so this is someone who stowed away in the plane ..and jumped before it landed ..(..possibly...)....I just can’t even imagine what some people’s lives are in their need to flea their country in what they think is ‘safety’...horrific, poor man ...and for those surrounding residents of where he fell and their emotional well-being ....

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Was there a message written on him like Con Air?

...I guess the message on all of those whose desperation has them trying to enter countries illegally and risking their own lives and the lives of those they love, would be...’I’m not as fortunate as you, I wasn’t born to be so fortunate as to have hope for a better life in the country I was born...’...