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Police seek identity of man who fell from sky
State Journal Register ^ | Dec 10, 2012

Posted on 12/10/2012 11:07:31 AM PST by KeyLargo

Police seek identity of man who fell from sky

LONDON — Police believe he was from Africa, probably from Angola, but they don't know his identity.

The mystery began in September when residents of a suburban street in the Mortlake neighborhood of West London woke up on a quiet Sunday morning to find the crumpled body of a black man on the sidewalk of Portman Avenue, near a convenience store, an upscale lingerie shop and a storefront offering Chinese medical cures.

Detectives believed at first the man was a murder victim and cordoned off the area. Within a day, however, police concluded the man — probably already dead — had fallen to the ground when a jet passing overhead lowered its landing gear as it neared the runway at nearby Heathrow Airport.

The apparent stowaway had no identification papers — just some currency from Angola, leading police to surmise that he was from that African nation, especially as inquiries showed that a plane from Angola was beginning its descent into Heathrow at about that time.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: aircraft; airlines; aliens; stowaway
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To: alancarp

I remember seeing a pic of a landed plane with red streaks coming from the wheel well..the ground crew thought hydraulic leak at first...closer look showed stowaway..yeeckh!!!!!


21 posted on 12/10/2012 12:11:13 PM PST by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: KeyLargo

That first picture is the paperboy screaming at the pilot he wants his two dollars.


22 posted on 12/10/2012 12:15:42 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: KeyLargo

It was probably an attempted terrorist attack gone wrong (or right?).


23 posted on 12/10/2012 12:33:36 PM PST by adorno (Y)
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To: KeyLargo

2010 in Boston
http://www.wbur.org/2010/12/10/tisdale-death

>>A Massachusetts prosecutor says it’s likely that a North Carolina teen whose mutilated body was found in Milton fell from the sky after stowing away in an airplane wheel well.

Norfolk County District Attorney William Keating says police searched the area Friday in Milton where 16-year-old Delvonte Tisdale was found last month, and they found sneakers and a shirt matching clothing his family said he’d worn.

He said the items were found along a path a Boston-bound plane would have taken while approaching Logan International Airport. Keating said authorities believe Tisdale hid in the airplane.

“It appears more likely than not that Mr. Tisdale was able to breach airport security and hide in the wheel well of the plane without being detected by airport security personnel,” Keating said.

Police found no evidence of foul play but did find trauma consistent with a fall from significant height.


24 posted on 12/10/2012 1:04:33 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: KeyLargo

One notes that this never happens to aircraft that are about to land in some communist or other third world hell-hole.


25 posted on 12/10/2012 1:16:26 PM PST by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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To: KeyLargo

The article mentioned the fact that he was found near a convenience store, an upscale lingerie store and a place selling Chinese potions. Now, Watson, what could all this mean? This must be important or they wouldn’t have put it in the article. Hmmmmmm.....a convenience store. He was probably going for a slurpee. An upscale lingerie store? Must have had some money and was buying ladies underwear. A Chinese potion store? Probably looking for an aphrodisiac. That’s it then, Watson. We simply look in the missing persons for a rich, thirsty, horny transvestite. That’s half of London, but it narrows it down some.


26 posted on 12/10/2012 1:24:17 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: KeyLargo

If you fall off a cliff, get rescued by Superman, and he asks “did you vote for Obama?”...you’d better give him the right answer.


27 posted on 12/10/2012 1:28:31 PM PST by fattigermaster
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To: alancarp

It’s in the same handbook as riding a bicycle against traffic. We don’t get that handbook, so we don’t understand.


28 posted on 12/10/2012 1:35:37 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: KeyLargo
His poor family. Here's an image of the man.


29 posted on 12/10/2012 1:47:01 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: KeyLargo
the crumpled body of a black man on the sidewalk

Matt?

30 posted on 12/10/2012 3:51:18 PM PST by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: KeyLargo

Attention Bob Costas: This man would still be alive if there were no planes!


31 posted on 12/10/2012 5:26:21 PM PST by Brandonmark (OWCM is The new American Minority!)
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To: KeyLargo
You've gotta feel bad for the guy.Freezing to death at an altitude at which the air doesn’t hold *nearly* enough oxygen can't be a fun way to go.
32 posted on 12/10/2012 6:55:44 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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To: KeyLargo

I didn’t know the Chinese made parachutes.


33 posted on 12/11/2012 1:32:14 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: KeyLargo
Time-lapse video of a number of airplanes arriving at LHR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHjVvqLXV8

Didn't see anybody fall out, thankfully.

34 posted on 12/11/2012 1:52:05 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: Gay State Conservative

He would have gone to sleep once above 20,000 feet without oxygen, which altitude the plane would have reached in minutes after takeoff and not felt any freezing temperature effects after that.


35 posted on 12/11/2012 5:39:46 AM PST by KeyLargo
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