Air France files lawsuit over Kenya bomb scare

Gagey congratulated the crew for his or her cool-headed response to divert the aircraft.

Mr Gagey said arrangements were being made to fly the passengers and crew back to Paris, adding they would return early today.

Passengers on the flight make their way across Mombasa airport.

Nevertheless, the airline said it was reinforcing security measures in Mauritius.

This post has been updated to reflect the arrest of some of the plane’s passengers.

An Kenyan police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Los Angeles Times that investigators are questioning six passengers about the device, which was spotted by a passenger in the restroom and looked like “a stop watch mounted on a box”.

All on board were evacuated in Mombasa as Kenyan authorities inspected the suspicious item.

He is said to be a 58-year-old man who lives on the island of Reunion.

Everyone aboard the aircraft was searched and taken to hotels, while bomb experts removed the suspicious object and examined it away from the airport. Daesh (the so-called IS terror group) has claimed responsibility for that and the October 31 crash of a Russian passenger in the Sinai desert that killed all 224 people aboard.

“The airport was sealed off by security personnel after the emergency landing”, Rajan quoted the official as saying.

Kenya’s interior minister says several people who were on Air France Flight 463 are being questioned in Mombasa. “Scheduled flights to Mombasa were disrupted this morning due to the incident”. “One of my grandchildren said: ‘The slide was super!'”

A passenger found the device in a cupboard behind the restroom mirror.

Air France has been the target of three prior hoaxes, all in the United States, Gagey said. He did not say how long that would take. Around 70 Paris airport workers have had their security passes withdrawn because they are suspected of links with radical Islamists.

Authorities have removed the device from the plane and are working to determine whether it contains explosives. “An investigation is being led by the authorities to identify the source of the threat”, it said. The airline has sent a substitute plane to pick up the passengers.

“The plane just went down slowly, slowly, slowly, so we just realised probably something was wrong”, Benoit Lucchini of Paris said. They were just wonderful. After the plane landed, they told us to run to the chutes, and to keep going, far from the plane.

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Steven Ciaran, 30, said he was watching a film when he noticed cabin crew preparing for an emergency.