No, there was no emergency landing at Uhuru Park

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Aircraft makes an emergency landing at Uhuru Park

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We conducted a reverse image search on the aircraft that had been shared by various media outlets, and discovered that an article written by Kenya4life covered the story on the plane and was first shared on August 9, 2022, in which the mysterious plane is said to be towed into the park on August 5 and will be one of many exciting features introduced at the park.

We also discovered footage of the aircraft shared on AfriLOVE’s YouTube channel on August 10, 2022.

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No, there was no emergency landing at Uhuru Park

The aircraft was moved to the historic Uhuru Park Gardens in Nairobi on August 9, 2022, as the park has been undergoing renovations since September 2021 under the supervision of Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS).

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