An Air France flight from Mauritius occupied and made a crisis arrival at Kenya's port city of Mombasa after a suspicious gadget was found in a latrine, Kenya's head of police and the aircraft said on Sunday.
Police Inspector General Joseph Boinnet said on http://www.colourlovers.com/lover/mehandidesignshis Twitter account that the Boeing 777 air ship went to Paris with 459 travelers and 14 team, was securely emptied after it arrived at Moi International Airport at 12:37 a.m. on Sunday (2137 GMT Saturday).
"Bomb specialists from the Navy and DCI (Directorate of Criminal Investigations) have recovered the gadget and are figuring out if the parts contained explosives," Boinnet said.
Air France said in an announcement that as a safety measure, all travelers were emptied from the flying machine by its crisis slides.
"They are (being) dealt with by Mombasa's air terminal ground staff and will be obliged. An examination is being driven by the powers to distinguish the wellspring of the risk," it said.
The carrier said it was attempting to re-course is travelers and was sending another plane to Mombasa to fly them to Paris.
"This Mombasa - Paris flight is planned to http://www.craftstylish.com/profile/mehandidesignsleave in the late evening of Sunday, December 20," it said.
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said on its Twitter account that flights from Mombasa air terminal were disturbed because of the crisis arrival.
(Reporting by George Obulutsa; extra reporting by James Regan in Paris and Jean
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