Passenger jailed for bomb joke on Kenya Airways plane

A Kenya Airways plane at JKIA. An Ethiopian man has been sentenced to four months in prison for joking about a bomb after boarding a Kenya Airways flight in April 2019. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

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Chifraye Bekele’s joke led to the cancellation of the Johannesburg-bound flight in April and to a three-hour shutdown of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in the capital, Nairobi.