The plane had flown from The Gambia to the West Sussex airport on 7 December.
A man's body has been found in the undercarriage of a plane at Gatwick Airport.Sussex Police said the discovery was made at the airport at about 04:00 GMT on 7 December.
A Gatwick Airport spokesperson said: "This is terribly sad news and our thoughts go out to the family and friends of the deceased."Sussex Police said: "Officers are investigating and a report will be prepared for HM Coroner."The 2,760-mile journey from The Gambia to the UK usually takes about six and a half hours on a direct flight.There have been several cases of stowaways being found dead in the UK.
In 2001, the body of Mohammed Ayaz, 21, from Pakistan, was found in the car park of a branch of Homebase in Richmond, near Heathrow Airport. Four years earlier, another stowaway fell from a plane on to a gasworks near the storelanding gear of a British Airways plane in Los Angeles
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