The stowaway who fell from a plane over London could have clambered into the landing gear hold on an earlier flight from South Africa to Kenya, it has been claimed.
One line of inquiry police in Nairobi are pursuing is that the mystery man could have hidden himself underneath the aircraft in Johannesburg.
The four-hour, 3,000-mile flight from the South African city to the Kenyan capital took off in the early hours of Sunday, arriving at 7am local time.
Two hours later, the same aircraft departed Kenya bound for London, a distance of more than 4,000 miles.
If the man had stowed himself into the compartment in Johannesburg, it would mean he was in the jet for more than 15 hours before falling to the ground in Clapham, South West London , as the plane came in to land at Heathrow.
Charles Owino, of Kenya Police, said: “We need to establish where the lapse was. We are looking into the possibility of that happening in South Africa as a line of inquiry. There have been cases in the past of stowaways on flights from South Africa to Kenya.”
Earlier this week, it emerged the body fell a metre away from software engineer John Baldock, who had been sunbathing.
A neighbour said he heard a “whomp”, looked out and saw the body and “blood all over the walls of the garden”.
