It requested permission to land at Moi International Airport in the coastal city of Mombasa after a passenger discovered the device in the restroom, he said.
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The CEO of Air France said hours after the plane had been grounded that the device discovered in the bathroom was a fake bomb.
“Bomb experts from the navy and the CID were called in and took the device which they are dismantling to establish if it had any explosives”, he said.
Sunday’s decision, which was short of the full truth, raises an ethical question about when passengers should be fully informed of problems in the air. She served as a City on a Hill Press editor and an editorial intern at Good Times Weekly.
This post has been updated to reflect the arrest of some of the plane’s passengers.
A Kenyan police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the device looked like a cardboard box with a stopwatch taped to it. He said six passengers were being questioned in relation to it, including the man who raised the alarm.
Steven Ciaran, 30 an Irishman working on Reunion Island, said he was seated at back of the plane watching a movie when he noticed the rushed movement of cabin crew preparing emergency drills.
Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery told reporters at Mombasa’s Moi International Airport on Sunday that the authorities were in touch with Mauritius to find out how passengers had been screened.
“The plane just went down slowly, slowly, slowly, so we just realized probably something was wrong”, said Benoit Lucchini, who was headed home to Paris on the flight.
“We are in touch with Mauritius to know how security screening of passengers was done”.
Mr. Lucchini echoed the head of Air France’s sentiments about the collective cool of the flight crew.
Air France-KLM said on December 8 that the attacks hurt its seat occupancy rate, with an impact on revenue for November estimated at about 50 million euros ($54 million).
Flight AF463 is the third Air France plane to be diverted in recent weeks. “It sows doubt, it disrupts our operations, it inconveniences passengers, and obviously each time we can get information about those who are responsible for these extremely bad jokes, pardon the expression, we file a legal complaint”, Gagey said.
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Airlines are especially jittery after Islamic State jihadists who claimed the Paris attacks also said they were responsible for downing a Russian jet in Egypt in October after smuggling a bomb onto the plane, killing all 224 people on board. Moscow has said that the crash was caused by a bomb on the plane. “This world is insane”, one passenger told the media in Mombasa.
