Nov 16th, 2019 : Look Who Dropped In

Clapham Common in London is a tranquil and comfortable-looking place. There are plenty of smart-looking Victorian terrace houses
bordering sleepy, tree-lined streets.
It was sunny and warm on 30 June as residents in south London finished their lunch and unwound on a leisurely Sunday afternoon.
One tenant in Offerton Road was busy reading on a lounger in the garden when the ground shook with a terrifying thud.

Paul Manyasi from Kenya had dropped in.



When the landing gear lowered...



But he was dead long before they got to England.
Why would he take such a foolhardy risk?



And an insecure cleaning job at the airport making £2.25 ($2.90) a day.

But the Brits had no way of knowing who he was, and it took Sky News a long time to find out.

Well...

He made his mark.

Sadly, similar incidents have occurred a number of times in the last few years.

In 2015 a stowaway fell from a British Airways aircraft and landed on the roof of a building in Richmond, west London.
He was discovered a short while after another man was found alive, but in a critical condition, in the undercarriage bay of an aircraft at Heathrow.

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In September 2012 another poor soul fell in similar circumstances into a street in East Sheen a couple of miles from the Richmond incident.

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People are dying to get in to Britain!

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He stuck the landing.

(at least no one said he bounced)

He came to America to make something of himself.

Does a mess count?

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If he fell from 3500 ft, he made a mess, of himself.

Maybe he landed neatly.

In England. Pardon, spoke outta my ass for moment.:lol2:

His body was probably frozen solid, or close to it. It's kind of morbid to think about, but I wonder how frozen flesh behaves in a high speed impact. The height probably doesn't matter one you get over a few hundred feet. A tumbling solid object will reach a terminal velocity of probably less than 200MPH. Did he splatter or mostly stay in one piece?

They said he looked like he was frozen. I'd interpret that to non-splatter.

glatt;1041742 wrote:

His body was probably frozen solid, or close to it. It's kind of morbid to think about, but I wonder how frozen flesh behaves in a high speed impact. The height probably doesn't matter one you get over a few hundred feet. A tumbling solid object will reach a terminal velocity of probably less than 200MPH. Did he splatter or mostly stay in one piece?

120 MPH if he wasn't in a stable vertical configuration. It is entirely possible that he was frozen right through, or close to right through, given the length of the flight (given that he was probably dead within the first 30 minutes) and the temperature.