Body falls from plane and crashes into London garden

The man is believed to have stowed away from Kenya.

A body has fallen from a plane and landed in a south London garden.

The man is believed to have been a stowaway who hid underneath the plane before it took off from Nairobi, Kenya.

He fell from the landing gear of a jet as it approached Heathrow after a nine-hour flight, police and airline officials say.

The Metropolitan Police force says the body of an unidentified man was found in a south London garden on Sunday, and it’s believed he fell from a plane.

He has not yet been identified.

Kenya Airways said Monday that police traced the body to its Nairobi-London flight.

A bag, water and food were discovered in the plane’s landing-gear compartment.

In a statement, the Met Police said: ‘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 3.39pm on June 30 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.’

Though not common, stowaways have in the past plunged to the streets of London as planes lowered their landing gear.

In September 2012, a 30-year old from Mozambique, Jose Matada, died after falling from the undercarriage of a Heathrow-bound flight from Angola.