A body has been found inside a British Airways (BA) plane which landed at Heathrow Airport in London today.

BA says the body was found inside the landing gear bay of a Boeing 747 after it arrived from Cape Town.

The Metropolitan Police and South African authorities are investigating.

The stowaway body was found in the landing gear of the jumbo jet that touched down this morning.

Police say the dead man was not a member of the British Airways crew or a passenger on the flight.

According to reports a man was spotted scaling a fence at Cape Town International Airport as the BA flight was getting ready for take-off.