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		</div><p>The body of a suspected stowaway that fell from a jet hit the ground just one metre from a man sunbathing in his back garden in south London, a neighbour has claimed.</p>
<p>Police were called to an address in Offerton Road in Clapham at 3.39pm by shocked residents.</p>
<p>One neighbour described hearing a &#8220;whomp&#8221; as the body hit the ground.</p>
<p>Police believe the body to be that of a man and he is understood to have fallen from the landing gear of a Kenya Airways flight as it prepared to land at Heathrow Airport.</p>
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<p>According to data from flightradar24.com, the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was little more than 3,500 feet above the ground as it flew over the street.</p>
<p>The individual fell into the garden of a property &#8211; only a metre from a tenant who had been enjoying the sunshine.</p>
<p>The neighbour said: &#8220;I heard a &#8216;whomp&#8217; &#8211; I went upstairs to look out of a window. At first I thought it was a tramp asleep in the garden.</p>
<blockquote><p>He had all of his clothes on and everything. I had a closer look and saw there was blood all over the walls of the garden.</p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;His head was not in a good way. I realised immediately that he had fallen.</p>
<p>&#8220;So I went outside and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken.</p>
<p>&#8220;He had been sunbathing and he landed one metre away from him.&#8221;</p>
<p>He continued: &#8220;The police were here very quickly.&#8221;</p>
<p>The neighbour, who asked not to be named, said that a plane spotter, who had been following the flight on a plane tracking app from Clapham Common, had seen the body fall.</p>
<p>The plane spotter had arrived almost at the same time as the police and told them the body had fallen from a Kenyan Airways flight.</p>
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<p>The neighbour said: &#8220;The police had four cars. They were here for about five hours to start the clean-up operation.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said the body was removed at about 8.30pm and that the clean-up team had returned on Monday morning to continue the job.</p>
<figure id="attachment_135269" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-135269" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-135269" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/72710DF1-E253-4A2F-89AE-C91C1C372566.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="338" data-wp-pid="135269" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-135269" class="wp-caption-text">General view of Offerton Road, in Clapham, south London, where the body of a suspected stowaway believed to have fallen from a jet has been found in a garden.</figcaption></figure>
<p>He added the neighbour that had been sunbathing had returned briefly yesterday evening before leaving again.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;I spoke to Heathrow Airport this morning to ask if they were aware of this.</p>
<p>&#8220;If it had been two seconds later, he would have landed on the common where there were hundreds of people &#8211; my kids were in the garden 15 minutes before [he fell].&#8221;</p>
<p>Describing the victim, he said: &#8220;One of the reasons his body was so intact was because his body was an ice block.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another neighbour said she had heard a thump, but thought it was falling scaffolding from nearby building works.</p>
<p>Referring to her neighbours, she said: &#8220;My heart goes out to them, they&#8217;re going to have to live with that for the rest of their lives.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Met Police said a bag, water and some food were discovered in the landing gear compartment of the plane when it arrived at the airport.</p>
<p>A post-mortem will be carried out in due course, the force said, and the age of the individual has yet to be determined.</p>
<p>The death is not being treated as suspicious.</p>
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<p>Inquiries are being conducted with the Met&#8217;s southern central command unit and its aviation policing command.</p>
<p>The Met said it would be liaising with the airline and international authorities.</p>
<p>In 2012, Jose Matada fell to his death from a British Airways flight inbound from Angola.</p>
<p>Mr Matada, originally from Mozambique, was found on the pavement in East Sheen on September 9.</p>
<p>An inquest into his death heard he is believed to have survived freezing temperatures of up to minus 60C for most of the 12-hour flight.</p>
<p>But he was understood to be &#8220;dead or nearly dead&#8221; by the time he hit the ground.</p>
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<p>In 2015, the body of a man landed on a shop in Richmond having clung on in the undercarriage of a plane from Johannesburg in South Africa to Heathrow.</p>
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