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Kenya Man Who Fell from Kenya Airways Plane Identified

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Nyakundi Report

Newsroom 1 min read

This archive report was first published on 13 November 2019.

London police released an e-fit image of the stowaway in June, sparking a four-month hunt for his identity.

However, it was a taxi driver's tip that led to the breakthrough. Kamau, a local taxi driver, had picked up information from airport employees that a cleaner at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport had gone missing.

Journalist investigation led him to Colnet, a cleaning company, where an employee identified the man as her missing colleague, Paul Manyasi.

"We were at work in the morning. So he suddenly disappeared. I called his phone it was off," Maureen, a Colnet employee, told Sky News.

Paul Manyasi, a 29-year-old Kenyan man, was identified as the stowaway who fell from a Kenya Airways plane into a London garden in June.

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