Sky News Apologises For Report of Man Who Fell From Kenya Airways

The British broadcaster Sky News has said said that their reporting on the identity of the stowaway, who fell from a Kenya Airways plane in London in June, was founded on misleading information. The report, from Africa correspondent John Sparks, identified the stowaway as Nairobi airport worker Paul Manyasi. Cedric Isaac Shivonje, the man whose photographs were published by the boadcaster as the stowaway is reportedly alive in a Kenyan prison.

Passengers alight from a Kenya Airways aircraft at Entebbe International Airport (file photo).

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