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 Cougar
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You know how it is, you're minding your own business in the garden, when a frozen corpse hits the ground a metre away from you...

THESUN.CO.UK "https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9417223/sunbather-stowaway-fell-3500ft-kenya-airways-jet-shock"
Sunbather almost killed by stowaway who fell 3,500ft from Kenya Airways jet is too traumatised to return home |
A SUNBATHER 3ft from being crushed when a frozen airplane stowaway plunged 3,500ft into his garden is too traumatised to return home.

John Baldock was in his...

(Apologies in advance for the Scum link)


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 1:57 pm
 wwaswas
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for those who don't want to fund The Sun:

BBC.CO.UK "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48830212"
Kenya flight 'stowaway' body found in Clapham garden - BBC News
The person is believed to have fallen from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi on Sunday afternoon.


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 1:58 pm
 kayak23
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Shows how utterly desperate some poor folk must be. Rip


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 2:00 pm
 fasthaggis
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Shows how utterly desperate some poor folk must be. Rip

Yup,heard the story on the radio this morning,grim.


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 2:03 pm
 TiRed
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Grim, but more common than you would imagine, I'm afraid. Surviving Everest altitudes is unlikely.

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wheel-well_stowaway_flights"
Wheel-well stowaway - Wikipedia


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 2:08 pm
 Coyote
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Bad man PP!!! Off to the step with you...


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 2:12 pm
 feed
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Was it just about half past ten?

Deserves applause, but.....


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 4:24 pm
 eddiebaby
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Seemed to happen a lot more in the past. This the first one I’ve heard about in the UK for quite a while. I’m assuming security has been beefed up a lot since 9-11 and this has been a side benefit.


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 4:29 pm
 DezB
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Man, that's horrible. 🙁


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 4:56 pm
 Ming the Merciless
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What SPF to use under a flight path?


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 5:09 pm
 Harry_the_Spider
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Deleted. Link already posted.


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 5:13 pm
 globalti
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GtiJunior has just moved into a room in Twickenham, right under the flight path. Hope nobody drops in on him....


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 6:02 pm
 mrchrist
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Looking at that wiki link I am amazed that a few folk have actually survived.


 
Posted : 02/07/2019 11:26 pm
 cookeaa
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Looking at that wiki link I am amazed that a few folk have actually survived.

Is that not primarily due to the Altitude? and I suppose flight time also...

First couple on the list survived in the wheel wells of DC3's in the 40's Which had a much lower ceiling around 22,000 ft? where later passenger jets from the late 50s onward went higher for and for longer...

For a lot of the later survivors the list seems to note altitudes at or below 35,000ft, a couple managed at 38/39,000ft so more short haul flights perhaps?

I note there seem to be more documented instances in recent years, but the survival rate looks to be dropping...


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 1:07 am
 senorj
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Horrible.
I can't imagine the person who was sunbathing is in a rush to get back out there either.
I used to live in Clapham in the 90's.
I'm sure there were tales of lumps of ice & aeroplane debris landing in gardens then. Railway arms& Mistress P's were crackers btw.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 8:36 am
 BillMC
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ibid. pp


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:45 am
 aphex_2k
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What you up to today?

"Just dropping into a mates place"


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 10:47 am
 nbt
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Apologies in advance...

the dead man has been tentatively identified as Amin Yagarden

I did apologise in advance, remember...


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 4:45 pm
 jimdubleyou
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I did apologise in advance, remember…

Your coat, sir...


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 5:10 pm
 franksinatra
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Was it just about half past ten

Good work.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 5:21 pm
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