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This deeply saddens me. As a South African myself it's hard to watch a once great country get driven in to the ground at such a rate and with such frivolity. Incidents like this are a true indicator of where my home country is heading. Terribly sad for those poor guys who were probably driven to this by poverty and lack of support.
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The poor man didn't even get a glimpse of Heathrow. He came down here on the roof of the white building:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4...100&h=80&yaw=346.62103&pitch=0!7i13312!8i6656
At least nobody else got hurt. There has been no further news on the state of the other one.
I remember a documentary where some of the people who got here illegally are finding it tougher to make a living here than in their own country and actually want to go back. So for this guy to die trying for the hope of not much means he must have been in a really bad situation.
As it happens I have my brother and sister in law over here right now, they live in Benoni, Johannesburg. They currently have to have rolling blackouts throughout their province because the energy companies messed up. Two hours every day no electricity. The crime is through the roof, he has been mugged three times at gun point in the last two years. The country is on a very slippery slope and sadly there's absolutely no hope.
Not read the artical, but they mention fell over west London, do they know the flight it came from? do they know which airport, was it local? I highly doubt he would have been alive if they were at high altitude.
Dont know the technicalities of how a body would sit in underside compartments, but I would imagine you could tuck yourself in somewhere, and a person could still die but be sat there trapped amongst what ever they are lodged between
But could this one have come from a local airport? or someone trying to enter the UK
Dont know the technicalities of how a body would sit in underside compartments, but I would imagine you could tuck yourself in somewhere, and a person could still die but be sat there trapped amongst what ever they are lodged between
But could this one have come from a local airport? or someone trying to enter the UK
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Impressive, although that is a long flight if it came from South Africa, could it be possible he died in mid flight, but then the body dropped out of the sky when landing gears were dropped as they approached the airport or something.
Wonder if ATC reported this on take off, usually they have spotters on the windows with bino's to check over aircraft as they take off (mostly to report any abnormailities with the take off/plane itself). Unless they get in at another point.
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There was two of them, 1 survived and is in hospital, so not only did he survive the flight he survived a few hundred feet drop (if not more?) onto the roof.
Edit: Actually - the guy that survived was still in the plane when it landed.
If he was black, they probably just pushed him out.
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I think the interesting point here though is that South Africa isn't really a developing country, is it? It seems an odd place to go to these lengths to escape from. I'm sure there is much about South Africa that isn't perfect but it's hardly Sudan or something is it?
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The country's gone. It's finished. It may not be Sudan quite yet, but give it a few more years. When I moved to the UK for example, a pound was worth R7. It's now worth R21. I am a saffer myself and have lots of contact with lots of saffers back home and they all say they want to get out. It used to be the powerhouse of Africa, but those days are long gone. It'll take something seriously drastic to restore that country to its former glory.