Suspected stowaway treated in hospital
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A suspected stowaway is being treated in a London hospital after being found unconscious on Thursday on a British Airways flight from Johannesburg after the plane had landed, British police said yesterday.
Police said that also on Thursday they had found the body of a dead man on the roof of an office under the flight path to Heathrow airport and were trying to work out if he could have fallen off the same plane.
The man found alive is believed to be 24 years old and police said in a statement that he was found in the undercarriage of the plane.
“His condition is now described as critical,” the statement said.
A police spokesman told AFP that the possibility that the two men were on the same plane is “one of the lines of inquiry.”
The police were called about the suspected stowaway on the 12,875-kilometer flight from South Africa at 8:28am and about the body at 9:35am.
The flight takes 11 hours and outside temperatures during the journey would fall as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius.
A British Airways spokeswoman said: “We are working with the Metropolitan Police and the authorities in Johannesburg to establish the facts surrounding this very rare case.”
The body was found on the roof of the offices of notonthehighstreet.com, an online retailer, in Richmond, a wealthy southwest suburb of London.
“Officers and the London ambulance service attended and found the body of a male on the roof of the premises,” the firm said in a statement.
“The death is currently being treated as unexplained but early indications are that the body may be that of an airline stowaway.”
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