Man Fell From the Sky; Authorities in London Searching for Man's Identity
The mystery continues as to the identity of a man who fell to his death in London.
The incident occurred on Sept. 9 when the body of an unknown man was found dead in a street in West London.
"It was scary, there was a body on the street, and nobody knew at first that he had fallen from a plane," neighbor Stephanie Prudhomme said at the time of the body's discovery, according to Fox News. "There were police everywhere."
Authorities first suspected that he was the victim of murder, but their suspicion changed after the post mortem was conducted, which found he died due to multiple injuries.
Officials deduced that the man fell from a passing plane and landed in the Mortlake neighborhood in London.
The theory that inspectors believe is the most likely answer to the mystery is that the unidentified man was a stowaway with the landing gear onboard a flight heading to Heathrow Airport. When the jet was passing over the neighborhood it lowered its landing gear and dropped the man's body from the sky as the plane headed to the nearby airport.
While his identity is still unknown, police are using what they can to try and discover who he was.
The man is believed to be African between the ages of 20 and 30 with a slim build. He had an identifiable tattoo of the letters "Z" and "G" with a horizontal line that ran through the "Z" located on his upper left arm.
The man's death has left strong emotions on the residents of the neighborhood who remembered him with flowers marked where his body was found.
"I felt, what was he running away from? What made him think he could he could? And how will his family ever know? He's a lost soul now; his father and mother are probably waiting for him to make contact," resident Catherine Lambert said, according to the Associated Press.
Until he can truly be identified, his memory will be that of the man who fell from the sky.
