The identification has since proved controversial.

The story with the headline: Who was the man who fell from the sky, named the dead man as Paul Manyasi, saying he worked for a cleaning company at the main airport in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

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It later turned out that the photo that the journalist had used to identify the stowaway was of another man, Cedric Shivonje Isaac, who is being held in a Kenyan prison for an unrelated crime.

Local newspaper Daily Nation spoke to Mr Shivonje who accused Sky News of using pictures from his Facebook page to misidentify him.