Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris Makes Emergency Landing in Kenya.

 

A suspected bomb has forced an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris to make an emergency landing in Kenya on Saturday night Dec 19,2015

 

Flight AF463 was carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew members. It left Mauritius at 9pm (1am GMT) and was due to arrive at Paris Charles de Gaulle at 5.50am local time.
The pilots requested an emergency landing at 12.37am

The pilots of the Boeing 777 are said to have requested to land at Moi International Airport in Mombasa after a suspect package was discovered in a lavatory.

All passengers were safely evacuated by the aircraft's emergency slides and the item is now being examined by bomb experts, a police spokesman said.

The Kenya Airports Authority said what was “believed to be an explosive device had successfully been retrieved” from the plane.

Police spokesman Charles Owino said: “Bomb experts from the Navy and the CID were called in and took the device which they are dismantling to establish if it had any explosives."

Four Passenger Arrested After Fake Bomb Discovered in Toilet

Four people have been arrested after a hoax bomb was found in the toilet of an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris which was forced to divert to Kenya. 

The Boeing 777 landed in Mombasa after a passenger reported the suspicious device. 

A technical examination of the device found it did not contain any explosives.

The flight was carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew members when pilots requested an emergency landing at a Mombasa airport at 9.30pm GMT.

However, nearly 20 hours after the emergency landing, Air France have now confirmed that the device was a fake bomb made of cardboard and a timer, possibly designed to start panic.