Stowaway survives 12,875km flight!

A suspected stowaway is being treated in a London hospital after being found unconscious on Thursday on a British Airways flight from Johannesburg after the plane had landed, British police said yesterday.

Police said that also on Thursday they had found the body of a dead man on the roof of an office under the flight path to Heathrow airport and were trying to work out if he could have fallen off the same plane.

The man found alive is believed to be 24 years old and police said in a statement that he was found in the undercarriage of the plane.

"His condition is now described as critical," the statement said.

A police spokesman told AFP that the possibility that the two men were on the same plane is "one of the lines of inquiry".

The police were called about the suspected stowaway on the 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometre) flight from South Africa at 8:28am and about the body at 9:35am. The flight takes 11 hours and outside temperatures during the journey would fall as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius.