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Air France bomb scare a false alarm

French police on Monday detained a couple who were passengers on an Air France flight which was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a fake bomb was found on board, a police source said.

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The airline said earlier on Monday that it is seeking to press charges against whoever had planted the mock device – made of paper, cardboard and a kitchen timer – in the plane’s lavatory.


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The flight was on its way from Mauritius to Paris when the suspicious object was found in a plane toilet and the aircraft made an emergency landing. There are no reports of any injuries. He praised the crew for their cool-headed, professional response to the situation.


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Six passengers were questioned on Sunday, including the person who informed the crew about the device, a Kenyan police official said. Air France officials said the third hoax was on a December 8 flight from San Francisco to Paris.

“We have ensured that all the passengers stranded on Sunday at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa have gotten in flights back to their country”, said Nkaissery.

Most airlines don’t have hard-and-fast policies on what to tell passengers, leaving that up to the crew, according to Alan Price, a former chief pilot for Delta Air Lines and founder of consulting firm Falcon Leadership.

The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius is a popular destination for French tourists.

France has been on high alert for terrorist activity and in a state of emergency since Islamic extremist attacks November 13 in Paris killed 130 people.

A retired policemen, the passenger initially suspected over a bomb hoax on board an Air France flight, has been released.

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“We interrogated the few individuals we had isolated and handed them to France, we took their finger prints and all other information and we have left it to the French government”, he said. “One of my grandchildren said: ‘The slide was super!”‘

EDWIN KANA						Credit AP				This Air France jet made an emergency landing at Moi International Airport in Mombasa Kenya on Sunday