Kenya flight 'stowaway' body found in Clapham garden

What is surprising about cases like this is that as many as 25% of stowaways do actually survive. Only just, and in poor condition, but they occasionally do survive. Often it is becasue the plane has had a problem and flown lower than planned. It has to be the craziest means of attempted travel anywhere.

There ought to be a sign in large letters inside the undercarriage bays with the statistics of survival and the details of how you die.

I imagine by the time you've read it, you're pretty much locked in there. Unless there's an intercom with the pilot: "I made a mistake, sir."

So Nairobi needs to up its security then.

So far, TSR is responding to this awful thing by:

- blaming the Kenyans
- mocking what happened
- discussing the technicalities of hiding in aircraft landing gear as if great authorities on the subject
- generally being indifferent to the suffering involved

Well done everyone.

Of course, if this was a white european middle class person plunging to their deaths..... but shall we not go there?

So far, TSR is responding to this awful thing by:

- blaming the Kenyans Who else failed to keep tight security at the airport?
- mocking what happened Ever heard of gallows humour?
- discussing the technicalities of hiding in aircraft landing gear as if great authorities on the subject Nobody has done that
- generally being indifferent to the suffering involved Anyone choosing to travel in thios way is ddoomed, and has chose his method of death

Well done everyone.

Of course, if this was a white european middle class person plunging to their deaths..... but shall we not go there?

So far, TSR is responding to this awful thing by:

- blaming the Kenyans
- mocking what happened
- discussing the technicalities of hiding in aircraft landing gear as if great authorities on the subject
- generally being indifferent to the suffering involved

Well done everyone.

Of course, if this was a white european middle class person plunging to their deaths..... but shall we not go there?

If it was a white middle class person you would be mocking their stupidity along with the rest of us, don't deny it. But when it's a sacred non-white, then it's suddenly out of bounds for some reason. Why?

You, as is so typical on the left, are exihibiting the racism of low expectations. You first make the assumption that Kenya and all of Africa is just wall to wall, inescapable poverty and suffering (it's not, Kenya as it happens has a very large and rapidly growing middle class, the majority of whom live perfectly normal, healthy and peaceful lives). You speak as though this individual had no agency over his own actions and assume that he must have been living in desperate poverty (how do you know that? The bottom line is you don't. You have no idea what his personal situation was, nor his motivation for doing this very stupid act which ultimately cost him his life).

So far, TSR is responding to this awful thing by:

- blaming the Kenyans
- mocking what happened
- discussing the technicalities of hiding in aircraft landing gear as if great authorities on the subject
- generally being indifferent to the suffering involved

Well done everyone.

Of course, if this was a white european middle class person plunging to their deaths..... but shall we not go there?

It's okay to be critical of Kenyan Airlines though, it's obvious to anyone that they either, have poor security checks or were complicit in this. Either way, it's alarming that this happened full stop. An investigation needs to take place asap.

The world needs to be fairer and more caring.

What is surprising about cases like this is that as many as 25% of stowaways do actually survive. Only just, and in poor condition, but they occasionally do survive. Often it is becasue the plane has had a problem and flown lower than planned. It has to be the craziest means of attempted travel anywhere.

There ought to be a sign in large letters inside the undercarriage bays with the statistics of survival and the details of how you die.

A suspected stowaway who is believed to have fallen from the landing gear of a flight into Heathrow Airport has been found dead in a London garden.
The body - believed to be that of a man - was found in Offerton Road, Clapham just before 15:40 BST on Sunday.

Police said it was thought the individual fell from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi.

A neighbour said the body fell a metre away from a resident who had been sunbathing in the garden.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48830212

the body is surprisingly resilient in extreme cold, oxygen deprivation aside.

If it was a white middle class person you would be mocking their stupidity along with the rest of us, don't deny it. But when it's a sacred non-white, then it's suddenly out of bounds for some reason. Why?

You, as is so typical on the left, are exihibiting the racism of low expectations. You first make the assumption that Kenya and all of Africa is just wall to wall, inescapable poverty and suffering (it's not, Kenya as it happens has a very large and rapidly growing middle class, the majority of whom live perfectly normal, healthy and peaceful lives). You speak as though this individual had no agency over his own actions and assume that he must have been living in desperate poverty (how do you know that? The bottom line is you don't. You have no idea what his personal situation was, nor his motivation for doing this very stupid act which ultimately cost him his life).