Suspected Bomb Found On Air France Jet Results In An Emergency Landing in Kenya

Bloomberg: Air France Jet Makes Emergency Landing in Kenya on Bomb Fear

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An Air France flight from the resort island of Mauritius to Paris made an emergency landing in Mombasa after a passenger discovered what appeared to be a bomb, Kenyan security officials said.

Several passengers were hurt scrambling off the plane when it landed on Sunday, police spokesman Charles Owino said by phone in Nairobi. “The plane made the call to Kenyan airspace 20 minutes after taking off from Mauritius at around 9 p.m. It safely landed at Moi International airport at 00:37.” The flight had 459 passengers and 14 crew.

A passenger on Flight 463 found what appeared to be explosive device with a timer in the plane’s toilet. Bomb experts removed the suspicious item and took it for analysis, Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said from Nairobi. There was no information whether it was “a real device or a decoy.”

Update: Kenya says investigating device that caused Air France flight to make emergency landing (Reuters)

WNU Editor: Everyone is nervous.