INCHES FROM DEATH Sunbather almost killed by stowaway who fell 3,500ft from Kenya Airways jet was left ‘unable to speak’ from shock EXCLUSIVE Mike Sullivan Matt Wilkinson Ben Leo 2 Jul 2019, 10:49 Updated: 2 Jul 2019, 16:24 THE sunbather almost killed by a stowaway who fell 3,500ft from a jet into his back garden was left "unable to speak" after the shock, The Sun can reveal. John Baldock was in his back garden when the frozen body fell from the landing gear of a Kenyan Airways jet coming to land at Heathrow on Sunday. 8 John Baldock was sunbathing in his back garden when the body of a man plummeted to the ground 8 The force of the impact was so severe that police were initially unable to tell whether the body was male or female 8 The Oxford University graduate was just inches from the falling body, which left a crater in the garden of the £2.3million home he rents in Clapham, South London. Speaking to The Sun today, a neighbour said: "I was in the kitchen and there was a huge noise. It shook the kitchen. "I thought my house was falling down. I went upstairs and looked out window and saw the body. "John had been out sunbathing. He is a lodger and is friends with Bob the owner. "I saw John outside he was shaking and trembling. He wasn't saying anything. He could hardly speak. "My husband called the police. It was horrific." John, a software engineer in his 20s who previously worked for Ticketmaster, has since fled back to his hometown of Exeter, Devon as he comes to terms with the near-miss. The corpse fell from the passenger plane at around 3.30pm as it came in to land at Heathrow following a nine-hour flight from Nairobi. Airline workers said a bag, water and stash of food were later found in the plane's landing gear - where the stowaway had been hiding. The body only narrowly missed a packed Clapham Common and High Street where families were out in their droves in the 30C heatwave. John, who rents a room in the four-storey house from pal Bob Renwick, is said to be struggling to come to terms with the ordeal and is being comforted by parents Michael and Phi. John's friend said: “He was so lucky not to be hit and killed. The impact obliterated the body. “He didn’t even realise what it was to begin with. He was asleep and then there was a huge impact. “The body literally landed one metre away from him and was obliterated. My friend was very shaken. 'THE IMPACT WAS HORRIFIC' “There were a few of us in the house at the time and it was lucky only one of us was in the garden. “Nobody would have survived being hit. The impact was horrific.” John has been living in the property for around six months, moving in while working for Bob's firm Plexi, based in Bermondsey, London, and Birmingham. Another neighbour added: “I heard a whomp so I went to look out the window. At first I thought it was a tramp asleep. He had all his clothes on and everything. "I had a closer look. I saw there was blood all over the walls of the garden and his head was not in a good way." The Clapham resident said a plane spotter, who had been following flight KQ100 on an app from Clapham Common, had seen the body fall, and arrived almost at the same time as the police. He added: “I spoke to Heathrow and they said this happens once every five years. There was a previous man who was frozen and this one, he was like an ice block.” The Kenya Airways flight passed over the house just after 3.30pm on Sunday — descending to around 3,500ft and flying at 200mph as it prepared to land. 8 The sunbather, who rents the house in Clapham, South London, has left London and is staying with his familyCredit: Darren Fletcher - The Sun 8 The body of a stowaway migrant plunged 3,500ft into the back garden of a Clapham home as the tenant sunbathed 8 The software engineer was left so stunned he was unable to speak, neighbours said 8 Bob Renwick, who owns the property where the body fell 'OBLITERATED' Landlord Bob Renwick's brother said John “very badly shaken". He added: “It was a narrow miss. The garden isn’t very big. “There was more than a lot of blood. It wasn’t pretty and caused a significant amount of damage.” The force of the impact was so severe that police were initially unable to tell whether the body was male or female. It is now understood the man was wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans. Forensics examined the scene for five hours before removing evidence. One female resident said: "There was an almighty bang. My husband went out into the street where my neighbour was standing on the phone to the police. "He was really shaken up. He'd been in the garden when it happened and the body must have landed so close to where he was. "My husband came back in and I asked him what was going on and he said 'haven't you seen the man? The man who fell from the sky?' "I wondered what he was talking about and went up to see for myself and there in the middle of the lawn was a body of a man." MOST READ IN UK NEWS LIZARD DARE DEATH Man who 'ate gecko at a party' dies 10 days later in 'absolute agony' MUM'S JUSTICE Mum begs judge to send her grandad to jail for killing son, 6, with air rifle 'WHY ME?' Girl, 16, soaked in cherryade by bully at prom sobs: 'I thought we were friends' It is not known for certain whether the stowaway was dead at the time he fell but he would have had to survive almost nine hours starved of oxygen at temperatures of around -60C. Police are trying to identify him. A source said: “There have been rare cases where stowaways have survived but in the main they lose consciousness because of a lack of oxygen and hypothermia and then they fall when the wheels go down.” A Department for Transport spokesperson said: “This is a shocking incident and our thoughts are with those involved. “While we do not comment on operational matters, we are liaising with the Kenyan authorities and the air carrier as they carry out their investigation into this incident.” 8 Flight KQ 100 left Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, at 7.19am, GMT on Sunday, June 30 Desperate migrants THE unknown stowaway is not the first desperate immigrant to have fallen from a plane while trying to sneak into Britain hiding inside the landing gear bay. Mozambican Carlito Vale hit an office roof in Richmond, South West London, in June 2015 after plunging from a British Airways jet. A second man miraculously survived the same 11-hour flight from South Africa in the undercarriage of the plane. A 20-year-old Romanian man also survived in the undercarriage of a private jet from Vienna to Heathrow in 2010. It had flown at comparatively low altitude with enough oxygen for him to breathe. But Turkish stowaway Kikmet Komur, 32, froze to death in the landing gear compartment of a BA jet in July 2013. He hoped to get from Istanbul to the UK to see his girlfriend. There are no recorded incidents of anyone hit by a falling body from a plane in the UK.