Airplane stowaway plunges to his death

A man plunged to his death, apparently from a plane, and landed on a business in a busy high street in London, and his fellow stowaway is critical in hospital.

The two men clung onto a British Airways plane as it flew 12,875km from Johannesburg, in South Africa, to Heathrow. The victim fell onto the roof of the business, NotOnTheHighStreet.com, in Kew Rd, Richmond, south west London, on Thursday.

Police and ambulance crews found the man dead at 9.30am. The second man, believed to be 24 years old, had been found unconscious in the undercarriage of the plane at Heathrow an hour earlier.