Device That Prompted Emergency Landing in Kenya Was a Fake Bomb
- 8 years ago
A fake bomb planted on an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris forced it to make an emergency landing in Kenya on Sunday.
An object described by a Kenyan police official as looking like "a stopwatch mounted on a cardboard box" was found in a toilet on the Boeing 777 airliner, which was diverted to Mombasa, on the Kenyan coast.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media, told the AP news agency that no explosives were found in the device.
Six passengers have been questioned over the scare.
All 459 passengers and 14 crew members disembarked safely after Flight 463 landed at Moi International Airport in Mombasa at 12:37 am local time on Sunday.
An object described by a Kenyan police official as looking like "a stopwatch mounted on a cardboard box" was found in a toilet on the Boeing 777 airliner, which was diverted to Mombasa, on the Kenyan coast.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media, told the AP news agency that no explosives were found in the device.
Six passengers have been questioned over the scare.
All 459 passengers and 14 crew members disembarked safely after Flight 463 landed at Moi International Airport in Mombasa at 12:37 am local time on Sunday.