Gatwick Airport: Man's body found in undercarriage of plane - BBC

A man's assemblage has been recovered successful the undercarriage of a level astatine Gatwick Airport.

The Tui formation had travelled from The Gambia's superior Banjul to the airdrome successful West Sussex.

Sussex Police said the find was made astatine the airdrome astatine astir 04:00 GMT connected 7 December.

A Gatwick Airport spokesperson said: "This is terribly bittersweet quality and our thoughts spell retired to the household and friends of the deceased."

Tui said it would not remark arsenic the incidental was a constabulary matter.

Sussex Police said: "Officers are investigating and a study volition beryllium prepared for HM Coroner."

A spokesperson for The Gambia's authorities said the antheral was an unidentified achromatic male.

The 2,760-mile (4,444 km) travel from The Gambia to the UK usually takes astir six and a fractional hours connected a nonstop flight.

There person been respective cases of stowaways being recovered dormant successful the UK.

In 2001, the assemblage of Mohammed Ayaz, 21, from Pakistan, was recovered successful the car parkland of a subdivision of Homebase successful Richmond, adjacent Heathrow Airport. Four years earlier, different stowaway fell from a level connected to a gasworks adjacent the store

In August 2012, a man's assemblage was recovered successful the undercarriage bay of a level astatine Heathrow after a formation from Cape Town. The adjacent month, Jose Matada, 26, from Mozambique, was found successful a thoroughfare successful Mortlake, West London. He died of aggregate injuries aft falling from a level travelling from Angola.