This Article is From Aug 23, 2012

Body found in jet's landing gear at Heathrow

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London: British Airways (BA) has said that a body has been found in a passenger plane that landed at London's Heathrow Airport after a flight from South Africa.

The airline said a man's body was found on Thursday inside the landing gear bay of a Boeing 747 at the end of a flight from Cape Town.

BA said it is working with South African authorities and Cape Town's airport and investigating how the incident took place.

London police said the dead man was not a crew member or passenger on the flight and the death is not being treated as suspicious.

It said it is working to determine the man's identity.

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