Dead Ghanaian stowaways were boys who may have played a prank

TWO stowaways who were found dead in the undercarriage of a plane at Heathrow Airport were boys as young as 12-years-old, it was revealed yesterday.

The youngsters, who have yet to be identified, sneaked aboard a Ghana Airways flight from Accra and were dead when the DC-10 plane landed in the UK. They were found by a ground engineer in a wheel compartment of the plane on Saturday.

A police source said: “They must have been absolutely desperate. It’s horrific. They were very young and they musn’t have realised how cold it would get.”