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Air France flight diverted to Kenya after bomb scare

The airliner’s chief executive Frederic Gagey said the suspicious device, which had been found in the lavatory on the plane, did not present any danger to its passengers.

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Gagey congratulated the team for their cool-made reaction for redirect the plane to Moi International Airport.


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He said that an undisclosed number of passengers who were aboard the flight were being questioned about the suspect device, but did not say if they were under arrest.

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

Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said on its Twitter account that flights from Mombasa airport were disrupted due to the emergency landing. He described the suspect device as “an assembly of cardboard, sheets of paper and a sort of kitchen timer”.

Steven Ciaran, 30, said he was watching a film when he noticed cabin crew preparing for an emergency.

“They are speaking to the passengers… who were near where the device was”, Nkaissery said.

France is still on high alert following bomb attacks and shootings in Paris.

An Air France plane which arrived at Moi International Airport, Mombasa, Kenya Sunday Dec. 20, 2015 to pick passengers after a bomb scare on their earlier flight from Mauritius.

Benoit Lucchini of Paris, one of the 459 passengers, spoke with journalists in Mombasa, stating, “The personnel of Air France was just great, they were just wonderful”.

It was found by a passenger in a cabinet behind the restroom mirror, he said.

The hoax – the fourth against Air France in recent weeks – comes amid heightened concerns about extremist violence in many countries, and aggravated passenger jitters around the holidays. “So they keep everybody calm and really quiet”.

So-called Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attacks in response to France’s military action in Syria. We didn’t know what was happening actually.

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“I was very distressed because I could see we were far from the destination”, said Ciaran.

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