A 65-year-old man was at the weekend arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport while hiding under a British Airways landing gear.
The stowaway planned to travel to London under the flight landing gear when a keen pilot intercepted him on Saturday, June 17 night.
The pilot had landed at JKIA and was taxing the plane for cleaning and boarding when he noticed a man run outside towards the landing gear.
The pilot noticed the man through the surveillance cameras.
He then alerted security who arrested Julius Mwangi Githinji, 65 while hiding under the front wheels.
He told police he planned to fly as a stowaway to Heathrow to look for greener pastures.
He was taken for grilling ahead of possible arraignment.
Police are investigating how he accessed the airside.
Cases of stowaways being found at the airport have been reported at the airport.
In 2021, a 16-year-old Kenyan boy grabbed global headlines in what has been described as a miraculous survival of a 14-hour flight to the Netherlands.
He was suspected to have sneaked at the JKIA as a stowaway.
The teenager survived freezing temperatures while clinging to the landing gear of the plane.
Officials said then the 16-year-old was found on a jet that landed at Maastricht Airport.
The plane, which flew from Nairobi to London via Istanbul before arriving in the Netherlands, crossed the North Sea from Stansted at 19,000 feet where the temperature would rival that of a deep freezer
In 2019, an unidentified male body dropped off a local airline’s plane as it made its descent into London’s Heathrow Airport.
It is believed that the man had hidden under the wheel section of the plane hoping to survive the approximately 9-hour flight to London.
