Stowaway plunges to death, another survives on flight to london

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20 Jun 2015, 12:00 am

in a bizarre incident, a stowaway who is believed to have clung on to a British Airways plane from Johannesburg has fallen to his death over a london store, while a second man remains critical in the hospital after miraculously surviving the nearly 13,000 km journey.

The two men, from South Africa, are believed to have been clinging to a British Airways (BA) flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow Airport in london. The man who died was found on the building of online shop in Richmond on Thursday.

Scotland Yard said his death was being treated as unexplained. The man who was injured, remains in critical condition.

In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “At this time there is no evidence to link the death to the discovery of a stowaway in the undercarriage of a plane at Heathrow Airport; however this is one line of enquiry into identifying the deceased and the circumstances of his death.”