On Sunday, Air France Flight 463 from the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius to Paris made an emergency landing in Mombasa, Kenya, after a bomb was reported aboard.
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A passenger alerted crew members to the item found inside a toilet cubicle on Sunday on board a Boeing 777, which was carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew members from Mauritius to Paris.
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The plane was forced to divert to Mombasa in Kenya where passengers and crew were evacuated.
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Kenya Civil Aviation Authority also posted on Twitter that that flights from Mombasa airport were disrupted due to the emergency landing.
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.
The police official said the box has been taken apart and no explosives have been found but the digital watch has not yet been analyzed.
“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. He could not say whether the object was assembled before the flight, but the materials would not usually be on board the aircraft.
Six passengers were being questioned over the device, a police official said.
Overwhelmed with relief, the passengers arrived safely in Paris on Monday, some crying as they embraced loved ones.
“We’re in touch with Mauritius to know how security screening of passengers was done”.
“It requested an emergency landing after a device suspected to be a bomb was discovered in the lavatory, an emergency was prepared and it landed safely and all passengers evacuated”, police spokesman Charles Owino said. They were accommodated at a hotel in Mombasa, and would travel on to France in the next few hours, Gagey said. Air France officials said the third hoax was on a December 8 flight from San Francisco to Paris.
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Airlines are especially jittery after Islamic State militants, 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. The crew told him it was a technical problem and they created a calm environment among the passengers, he said.
