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Body Of Frozen Stowaway On Airplane Falls 3,500 Feet And Almost Lands On Sunbather
2019-07-03
[DAILYWIRE] John Baldock got lucky. Very lucky.

Baldock, who has a master's degree in engineering from Oxford University, was just chilling in the garden of a $3 million home outside London when he heard a thud.

"There was an almighty bang. At first I thought it was some scaffolding falling down and thought nothing more about it," one of Baldock's neighbors told the Daily Mail.

But it wasn't. It was the sound of a frozen body hitting the ground after falling from 3,500 feet.

"The corpse fell to the ground as the nine-hour flight from Nairobi approached London Heathrow Airport and opened its landing gear on Sunday afternoon," the Mail wrote.

Police later said the victim was likely a stowaway who had hidden inside the landing gear of a Kenya Airways flight that landed at Heathrow, about 10 miles from the house where his body was found. Upon inspection, food and drinking water was found within the wheel well.

The body created a huge crater in the lawn and smashed two concrete paving slabs.

Baldock was "very shaken" by the incident, the Mail said, noting that there was "blood all over the walls of the garden."
Posted by:Fred

#7  Hopefully there won't be any more fallout for Kenya Airways.
Posted by: gorb   2019-07-03 20:30  

#6  Without us, and Baldock of course, he'd just be a blip in the news.☺

and on the radar
Posted by: Frank G   2019-07-03 12:57  

#5  Thank you, Lex. That's about the highest honor a stowaway from Nairobi can expect. Burial in England with prose from a fine Bard named Lex. Without us, and Baldock of course, he'd just be a blip in the news.☺
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-03 12:18  

#4  That's the way to go - in an English garden, with English poetry:

I wandered lonely through the clouds
That float on high, o'er dales and hills
When all at once I face planted a crowd,
A host! of golden daffodils
...
Posted by: Lex   2019-07-03 12:01  

#3  I wonder if Kenya Airways owes him for the paving slabs.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-03 11:41  

#2  That's the way I want to be buried. Let my dead frozen body dig a crater in somebody's English garden. Cover it over and plant some nice flowers on top.
Posted by: jpal   2019-07-03 11:20  

#1  I would say the infrequent flyer stowaway got lucky too. A burial in London being far better than a life in Nairobi.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-03 01:43  

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