Death on Ghana Airways!!

Two dead bodies, thought to be those of stowaways, were found in the undercarriage of a Ghana Airways plane that landed at London's Heathrow Airport at the weekend, airline officials say.

"A human arm dropped on to the tarmac when the plane touched down at Heathrow at exactly 1853 (6:53 p.m.) London time (on Saturday)," Ghana Airways marketing chief Ransford Akai told Reuters on Monday.

"Aircraft engineers later found the bodies inside the undercarriage, where the tyres retract," he said, quoting the London manager of the West African country's national carrier.

Another aviation official said the bodies found in the DC 10 plane were male. Their identities, age, and nationality as well as the cause of their death have yet to be established.

"The two must have got on to the plane in Accra in broad daylight because it was a daytime flight," said Captain Joe Boakye, director-general of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority.

He said no one hiding in the plane's undercarriage could survive the six-hour flight between the Ghanaian capital and London.

"They would be crushed by the tyres or definitely they would freeze to death," he said.