A teenage Kenyan stowaway has survived a flight from London to Maastricht after climbing into the landing-gear bay area of the fuselage. The 16-year-old boy was found after the cargo jet landed in the Netherlands city on Thursday. It is thought the youngster may have survived the plane’s earlier – and far longer – flight from Nairobi in Kenya to London Stansted Airport, via a stop in Istanbul in Turkey. A spokesperson for Maastricht Aachen.
By Emma Wallis Published on : 2021/01/14
In 2015, it was reported that a man fell from a plane into the streets of West London. The man, Carlito Vale, died as he hit the ground. But with him was another man, who survived. Documentary filmmaker Rich Bentley has made it his mission to find out more. He was a quiet man [.] a good man, say the people who knew Carlito Vale in Rich Bentley’s documentary on
But Vale s life ended on the streets of West London when he was about 30. Local residents have unfortunately experienced a few people falling from the sky in this area as it is on the flight path towards Heathrow. The planes open their undercarriages round about here, explains one woman, looking up at the sky.
SA stowaway who survived harrowing flight from Joburg to UK finally tells his story TimesLIVE > By TimesLIVE - 05 January 2021 - 11:13 Themba Cabeka, who now goes by the name Justin, and survived the flight from Johannesburg in 2015, features in The Man Who Fell from the Sky. Image: POSTCARD PRODUCTIONS
A stowaway who hid in the undercarriage of a British Airways flight from Johannesburg to London and survived, after months in hospital, spoke about his harrowing ordeal and new life in a television documentary yesterday .
Themba Cabeka and a friend, Carlito Vale, sneaked aboard the passenger aircraft at OR Tambo International Airport in June 2015. Vale fell to his death during the 11-hour-long flight, shortly before it landed at Heathrow Airport.