A plane lowers its undercarriage as it descends for landing at London Heathrow airport. Photograph: Avpics/Alamy
In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?
Thu 15 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
It was Sunday 30 June 2019, a balmy summer’s afternoon, and Wil, a 31-year-old software engineer, was lounging on an inflatable airbed outside his house in Clapham, south-west London. He wore pyjamas and drank Polish beer. As he chatted to his housemate in the sunshine, planes on their way to Heathrow airport made their final approach overhead. On his phone, Wil showed his housemate an app that tells users the route and model of any passing plane. He tested the app on one plane, and then held his phone up again, shielding his eyes from the sun and squinting into the sky.