The man who fell to Earth – podcast
Twenty-three years after Mohammed Ayaz fell from a plane wheel bay as it descended to Heathrow Airport, his brother visits the car park where his body was found. Esther Addley reported that in 2001, Mohammed Ayaz climbed into the wheel bay of a British Airways Boeing 777, heading from Bahrain to London Heathrow. His body fell from the plane as it descended, and was discovered in a car park in Richmond. After the police identified him, the Guardian’s Esther Addley tracked down his family to a rural village in northern Pakistan. Mohammed’s family told Esther that he had tried to get to the UK legally, but had not been successful. She wrote about the story in an article titled The Man Who Fell to Earth.
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/sep/09/the-man-who-fell-to-earth-podcast
