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London Metropolitan Police say they came across a body on Sunday and believe the victim had fallen out of an airplane. The flight in question originated in Nairobi, Kenya, and was bound for London, according to Kenya Airways, who issued a statement addressing the discovery.
"The incident has been treated as a sudden death and is now a police matter. The police have already been in contact with the Kenya High Commission to help identify and name the person," the airline said in the statement.
Authorities say they discovered a bag, water and food in the plane's landing gear compartment, suggesting the man may have hid himself there and fallen out mid-flight. While their investigation is ongoing, police said the death is not being treated as suspicious.
The unidentified stowaway is not the first to take a fatal plunge from an aircraft; in September of 2012, a 30-year-old stowaway from Mozambique fell to his death under similar circumstances, from a London-bound flight from Angola.
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passportfood and water didn't fall outHe has been sold a false bill of goods, that the streets of London, like the pied piper are full of gold.
And he lost his life, that is a life of desperation we never see in the west, in our comfortable bubbles
Do you know that Kenya has oil, and Nairobi is the largest city in Kenya
So a country that has oil reserves, that could potentially benefit the people, is on the bake burner, because off changes in oil prices,
From Reuters
Kenya discovered commercial oil in 2012 in its Lokichar basin, which Tullow Oil estimates contains an estimated 560 million barrels in proven and probable reserves. Tullow has said this would translate to 60,000 to 100,000 barrels per day of gross production.
It is proven the world over that a refinery would make money only when it has refining capacity of at least 400,000 barrels a day, Andrew Kamau, principal secretary at the petroleum and mining ministry, told reporters. “And we have 80,000 barrels a day, so where are we going to make money on that? We can import cheaper from India,” he added. Kenya, which does not export any oil, previously had a crude oil refinery at its port city of Mombasa but halted operations in 2013 after plans for a $1.2 billion upgrade were abandoned on the advice of consultants who said it was not economically viable.
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Are all those oil reserves that were predicated for Kenya are screwed, and maybe some body bet the farm and lost their lives, whether it's oil or crops,precious metals, diamonds, Africa as far as the West is concerned, is nothing more than a resource grab.
And to bring Africans into the human family, for that mindset it's a step too far. for the old colonial western mindset ( it has never left) they are still enraptured with the out of Africa theory of ancient fossils of ancient hominids, millions of years ago, nothing more than apes that just climbed out of the trees.
In the West thy have this ideology that Africans are unable to direct their own future without the influence of the western world. Simply because they have destroyed there people, subjected them to slavery and destroyed their culture, that is unless one is a collector of original tribal art, that can be sold for thousands of dollars/pounds at prestigious auction houses in the west, that have a provenience of being acquired by some military person, the Zulu wars come to mind.
And the same thing has repeated itself, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Coffers gold from state treasures looted, artifacts, stolen, all because, history can be rewritten by the reality creators.
Well what a rant, didn't expect this from a poor unfortunate soul that lost his life, in the hopes of a better, world, but Y'now, I think he has found a better world.
Another low IQ African. Hey, I'm sorry he decided to be so dumb, I don't like to see people die
But come on...He's gonna sneak into the aircraft wheelwell..That's unpressurized and unheated. That's the mentality of a rodent. Hes actually had a better death falling IMO than being suffocated and frozen slowly.
Get on in Africa, die of hypoxia and then fall out when they put the gear down.