I feel this event is horrible in every single way. For the people who were probably traumatized by this situation when he dropped in their community, for a man who felt the need to escape and lost his life, and for his family who probably are not even aware about his misfortune. Hopefully they can figure out his identity and not only his family, but the residents can find some comfort in peace in this situation.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Police unable to identify a man who 'fell from the sky' -Rian Pettit
Police are still trying to identify a man after he fell from a plane 3 months ago in the Mortlake neighborhood of West London. The believe he was from Angola, but they could not tell since he had no identification on him, just some Angolan currency. At first he was believed to be a murder victim, but further in the investigation it turns out he was a stowaway who died when the plane lowered its landing gear and he fell out. Aviation safety specialist Chris Yates of Yates Consulting said: ''They so often end in fatality because more often than not stowaways climb into the wheel base or cargo hold, and those areas are not necessarily pressurized," he said. "When you start moving beyond 10,000 feet, oxygen starvation becomes a reality. As you climb up to altitude, the issue becomes cold as well, the temperature drops to minus 40 or minus 50 degrees centigrade, so survival rates drop." It is believed that this mystery man lost consciousness and died the first hour of the flight.
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That's awful! I can't imagine a dead body just falling into our community out of the blue... That would be kind of scary.
ReplyDeletesounds scary. hope they can discover something fast
ReplyDeleteWe are lucky to live here. People risk their lives to get to a better place. He lost his.
ReplyDeleteThat's terrible! That's really scary as well.
ReplyDeleteSo he died on the plane or when he flew off? Either way, I hope officials can indentify him :/
ReplyDelete-Abraham Correa
That is just awful. I wouldn't know what to do if a dead body just fell into where I live. I would be traumatized. I hope he is identified soon because his family and friends need to know that one of their loved ones is no longer alive. I didn't know that people actually stow away on planes. That is such a risk, and I don't know why someone would do it. I just hope that people find out who he is.
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