A stowaway who is believed to have clung on to a plane has fallen to his death, while another is in hospital.
The two men are believed to have been clinging to a British Airways flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow.
The victim was found on a shop building on Kew Road, Richmond, at about 09:35 BST on Thursday. Police said his death was being treated as unexplained.
The man who was injured is in a serous condition in hospital.
The Met said it could not confirm if the two cases were linked, but it was "one line of enquiry".
The surviving man was found on the flight at about 08:20 BST and taken to a west London hospital.
'Rare case'
He is aged between 25 and 30 and enquiries are ongoing to establish his identity, the Met said.
In a statement, British Airways said: "We are working with the Metropolitan Police and the authorities in Johannesburg to establish the facts surrounding this very rare case."
A post-mortem examination will be carried out on the dead man.
There have been other cases where stowaways have fallen to their deaths in London after smuggling themselves onto planes and hiding in landing gear.
In September 2012, Jose Matada, 26, died after falling from the undercarriage of a flight from Angola to Heathrow on to a street in Mortlake, west London.
An inquest heard he may have survived freezing temperatures of up to minus 60C (76F) for most of the 12-hour flight, but it was believed he was "dead or nearly dead" by the time he hit the ground.
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