Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
A plane lowers its undercarriage as it descends for landing at London Heathrow airport. Photograph: Avpics/Alamy In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he? Thu 15 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT It was Sunday 30 June 2019, a balmy summer’s afternoon, and Wil, a 31-year-old software engineer, was lounging on an inflatable airbed outside his house in Clapham, south-west London. He wore pyjamas and drank Polish beer. As he chatted to his housemate in the sunshine, planes on their way to Heathrow airport made their final approach overhead. On his phone,...