The body of a suspected stowaway believed to have fallen from a Kenyan jet hit the ground just yards from a man as he sunbathed in the garden of his south London home, a neighbour has claimed.
Emergency services were called to the £2.3m property in Clapham just before 3.40pm on Sunday afternoon.
It is believed the person - understood to be a man - fell from the landing gear of a Kenya Airways flight as it prepared to land at Heathrow Airport.
According to data from flightradar24.com, the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was little more than 3,500 feet above the ground as it flew over the street.
One neighbour claimed they heard a 'whomp' - and went upstairs to look out of a window.
"At first I though it was a tramp asleep in the garden," they said.
"He had all of his clothes on and everything. I had a closer look and saw there was blood all over the walls of the garden.
"His head was not in a good way. I realised immediately that he had fallen.
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"So I went outside and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken.
"He had been sunbathing and he landed one metre away from him."
According to the neighbour, just a few seconds later and the body would have landed in the middle of a common, where hundreds of people were enjoying the sunshine.
Another resident said she too heard a thump, but thought it was falling scaffolding from nearby building works.
The Met Police said a bag, water and some food were discovered in the landing gear compartment of the plane when it arrived at the airport.
A post-mortem will be carried out in due course, the force said, and the age of the individual has yet to be determined.
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
Inquiries are being conducted with the Met's southern central command unit and its aviation policing command.
The Met said it would be liaising with the airline and international authorities.
