A stowaway who managed to survive a 5,659 mile, 11 hour flight from South Africa to London now lives in the UK having claimed asylum.

Themba Cabeka, 30, was in a coma for months after clinging on to the undercarriage of the jumbo jet in temperatures as low as -60 degrees. When he woke, he was told the devastating news that the friend who he came with tragically fell 5000ft from the plane to his death.