Fake bomb in toilet forces Air France flight to make emergency landing in Kenya
- 8 years ago
MOMBASA, KENYA — A bomb scare on an Air France flight carrying more than 400 people forced the crew to make an emergency landing in Mombasa, Kenya late Saturday night.
A passenger onboard the Paris-bound flight AF463 from Mauritius found a suspicious device in the bathroom mid flight. A Kenyan official told the Guardian that the box looked like a cardboard box with a stopwatch taped onto it. The device is thought to have been planted during the flight, Reuters reported.
Crew members were immediately alerted and the Boeing-777 was diverted to the nearest airport in Mombasa. The plane landed at the airport before 1 a.m. on Sunday and those on board were evacuated via the plane's emergency slides.
According to Reuters, bomb experts from the Navy and Directorate of Criminal Investigations were called in, but officials found the bomb to be a hoax.
Six passengers are being questioned about the fake explosive while the rest of the passengers departed from Mombasa later that day.
This is the third Air France plane to be diverted in recent weeks. The company has been the target of four bomb threats in the past 15 days — three of which were directed at flights in the U.S.
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A passenger onboard the Paris-bound flight AF463 from Mauritius found a suspicious device in the bathroom mid flight. A Kenyan official told the Guardian that the box looked like a cardboard box with a stopwatch taped onto it. The device is thought to have been planted during the flight, Reuters reported.
Crew members were immediately alerted and the Boeing-777 was diverted to the nearest airport in Mombasa. The plane landed at the airport before 1 a.m. on Sunday and those on board were evacuated via the plane's emergency slides.
According to Reuters, bomb experts from the Navy and Directorate of Criminal Investigations were called in, but officials found the bomb to be a hoax.
Six passengers are being questioned about the fake explosive while the rest of the passengers departed from Mombasa later that day.
This is the third Air France plane to be diverted in recent weeks. The company has been the target of four bomb threats in the past 15 days — three of which were directed at flights in the U.S.
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