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Tall tale? Is fellow who dropped from London-bound KQ plane even Kenyan?

Cedrick Shivonje. The man believed to be the stowaway Paul Manyasi. [Standard]

When Kenya Airways flight KQ 100 left Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on June 30 for London, it was just another routine journey.

The passenger plane had spent eight hours at 37,000ft (11,277m) and dropped to about 4,000ft as it approached Heathrow Airport.

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