Body Found In Plane's Landing Gear At Heathrow

Horrifying Discovery In Plane's Landing Gear At Heathrow
A British Airways plane comes in to land behind a tail fin at Heathrow Airport in London, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. British Airways has reported its first profit for two years, a half year profit of 158million pounds (252million US dollars). (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
A British Airways plane comes in to land behind a tail fin at Heathrow Airport in London, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. British Airways has reported its first profit for two years, a half year profit of 158million pounds (252million US dollars). (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Associated Press

LONDON — British Airways says a body has been found in a passenger plane that landed at London's Heathrow Airport after a flight from South Africa.

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

BA says 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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