Super Economy Class: Body of Stowaway Falls From Plane While It’s Landing at Heathrow
2nd July 2019
A stowaway fell out of the bottom of a jet as it was approaching Heathrow airport to land on Sunday, according to NBC. The incident took place after a nine hour flight from Nairobi and the body wound up landing in a garden.
Metropolitan police said that the body was found in a garden in South London on Sunday and that it was believed to have fallen from a plane. The body has not been identified, nor has an official cause of death been determined.
We are not coroners, but we’re going to go out on a limb and say that if the authorities’ hypothesis is correct, the cause of death is likely going to be – wait for it – falling out of an airplane.
The poor guy was probably dead a corpse. Commercial flights typically travel at 30,000 feet, and there isn’t enough oxygen at that height to sustain life; Mt Everest climbers refer to altitudes above about 29,000 feet as ‘the death zone‘. Spend nine hours up there and you’re pretty much dead.
July 2nd, 2019 at 13:06
Not to mention he was probably frozen. Air temp at 35000 ft is around -60F.