A man’s body was discovered in an airplane’s undercarriage that was flying from the Gambia to Britain.
A black male passenger’s unidentified body was discovered on a TUI Airways flight from Banjul, the capital of the Gambia, to Gatwick Airport in London, according to a statement released by the country’s government on Tuesday.
According to Sussex Police, the body was found at Gatwick on December 7 around 4 am.
In a statement, the force said: “Police were called after the body of a man was found in the undercarriage of an aircraft at Gatwick Airport, arriving from Gambia, at about 4am on December 7.
“Officers are investigating and a report will be prepared for HM Coroner.”
However, this is not the first time – Stowaways on planes and ships have happened before.
In 2015, Dutch authorities discovered a body in the landing gear of a plane from Africa in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
In November, three stowaways were found on a ship’s rudder in the Canary Islands after an 11-day ocean voyage from Nigeria.
In 2019, Stowaway reportedly fell from a Heathrow plane and landed next to sunbather.
The body was found on the undercarriage of a Kenya Airways flight that left from Nairobi.