Air France flight diverted after suspected bomb found on board

This content was originally posted in 7DAYS UAE website at: Air France flight diverted after suspected bomb found on board An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to land in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa after a device suspected to be a bomb was found in the toilet on board, a Kenyan police official. The Boeing 777 Air France flight 463 was heading to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on Sunday when the pilots requested an emergency landing at the Moi International Airport at 12.37am, police spokesman Charles Owino said. “It requested an emergency landing when a device suspected to be an explosive was discovered in the lavatory,” Owino said. The plane was carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew members on board and had left Mauritius at 9pm, Owino said All passengers were safely evacuated and the device was taken out, said Owino. Bomb experts are analysing the suspected explosive, he said. “The object, believed to be an explosive device has successfully been retrieved from the aircraft,” said Kenya Airports Authority in a post on Twitter, adding that scheduled flights to Mombasa were disrupted during the interval but that normal operations have resumed. Read the original story at: Air France flight diverted after suspected bomb found on board