The four had all been on board Air France Flight 463, a Boeing 777 bound from Mauritius to Paris, which was diverted to the coastal Kenyan city of Mombasa after the device was found, Kenyan Cabinet secretary for the Ministry of Interior Joseph Nkaissery told CNN.
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Police Inspector General Joseph Boinnet said the plane’s 459 passengers and 14 crew were safely evacuated after landing at 12.37am.
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On Sunday, the Air France flight made an emergency landing in Mombasa, Kenya, after the discovery of the fake explosive rigged with cardboard, sheets of paper and a household timer.
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The suspects boarded the plane in Mauritius and were headed to Paris, France.
But several continued to be questioned by police as an investigation began.
Senior detectives from France were on Sunday dispatched from Nairobi to assist in the complex investigation that comes in the wake of last month’s sporadic terrorist attacks in Paris where Islamic State militants claimed responsibility. The airline’s CEO, Frederic Gagey, denied any security failure in the flight, but decried the the series of hoaxes. “A number of passengers are still under interrogation”, he added. And so we secured our seat-belts, and we (Air France) said we had to land in Mombasa because we had a technical problem.
He said the “deduction” was that the item had been placed in a toilet cupboard by one of the passengers and said the bomb scare appeared to be the result of a “bad joke”. “We didn’t know what was happening”.
John Stephen, a passenger on the plane, told Agence France-Presse that passengers were evacuated using emergency slides.
A passenger reported the device to the cabin crew who informed the pilots leading to an emergency landing at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa.
Kenyan security authorities have confirmed that a bomb was discovered aboard an Air France plane that had been carrying 473 passengers from Mauritius to Paris.
A passenger engaging in “stupid behaviour” likely made the object, he said.
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An official in the prosecutor’s office in Bobigny, outside Paris. said that the former police officer in his late 50s was once a member of the elite emergency response unit RAID and hailed from the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion. After the plane landed, they told us to run to the chutes, and to keep going, far from the plane. It was not immediately clear what, if any, action was taken in response to that threat.
