http://news.sky.com/story/1504970/stowaway-plunges-to-death-from-ba-plane"A stowaway has died after falling from a British Airways jet onto a shop in southwest London.
He and another man are believed to have clung on to the passenger plane as it flew more than 8,000 miles from Johannesburg in South Africa to Heathrow.
The second man, aged between 25 and 30, is in a serious condition in a west London hospital after miraculously surviving the ordeal.
He was discovered alive by staff at Heathrow.
The victim died as the Boeing 747 came into land over Richmond at around 9.30am on Thursday.
63 Kew Road
NotOnTheHighStreet.com in Kew Road, Richmond
He reportedly landed on the roof of NotOnTheHighStreet.com in Kew Road.
A spokesman for the retailer was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Sky News.
British Airways described it as a "very rare case" and said it is working with police in London and Johannesburg to establish the facts.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: "Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found the body of a dead man on the roof of a business premises.
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained.
"A post-mortem examination will be held in due course and inquiries are ongoing to establish the male's identity. No arrests have been made."
There have been previous cases of stowaways falling from planes in the Heathrow flight path area in southwest London.
In September 2012, Jose Matada died after falling from the undercarriage of a Heathrow-bound flight from Angola on to a road in Mortlake, about a mile from Richmond.
The 26-year-old from Mozambique is believed to have survived temperatures of up to minus 60C for most of the 12-hour flight, an inquest heard.
He was "dead or nearly dead" by the time he hit the ground.
In July 2013, a suspected stowaway from Turkey was found frozen to death in the undercarriage of a BA jet from Istanbul to Heathrow.
He died after facing temperatures of minus 60C during the four-hour flight."
The question is..........................................how?!?!
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I reckon I could give it a go.
What?
The real mystery is who they were and how they got onto the plane. In the age we live in someone being able to stowaway in the undercarriage is pretty concerning. Just as well they were after a better life on benefits rather than something malicious to the passengers on board.
They probably would have walked out the same day with £5,000 each and given an eight bedroom house complete with Sky and Sony Play Station and three Haut Cuisine meals per day prepared by Albert Le Roux and then a bunk-up with Dame Vera Lynn - all at the taxpayers expense.
String the buggers up I say.