It is probably a death caused by a desire to leave a country to seek a Western Eldorado. The body of a stowaway recently fell from a plane as it passed through a suburb of the capital London. A resident of this English town experienced the unpleasant surprise of seeing the lifeless body of an unidentified man literally land among his lilacs.

Police say the man was believed to have been hiding in the landing gear door of a Kenya Airways plane, which opened as the plane was about to land at Heathrow. “A bag, water and food were discovered in the landing gear compartment,” police said.

A witness, quoted by The Sun, says that the frozen body crashed barely a meter from his neighbor.

“He was very lucky not to be rammed and killed. The impact destroyed the body,” the witness said.

“He didn’t realize what was going on at first. He was drowsy and then there is a huge impact,” he added.

The elements of the police in charge of the investigation have also indicated that he has so far had difficulty in identifying the body. But investigations could suggest that the man succumbed to breathing difficulties resulting from poor travel conditions.

These are the latest findings from the investigation. The London police have also shown strong suspicions that the stowaway would have illegally slipped into the landing gear of the Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi in Kenya to Heathrow in Great Britain.

In recent years, several Nigerian stowaways have been found frozen to death or crushed by a wheel on planes making the connection between Lagos and Johannesburg or New York.

As a reminder, in 2012, an Angolan fell from a British Airways plane. The autopsy carried out on his body then showed that he had suffered temperatures between -50 and -60 degrees and that he died of asphyxiation before falling.

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