Air France 463, a Boeing 777 aircraft, headed to Paris with 459 passengers and 14 crew, was safely evacuated after the flight landed at Moi International Airport in Kenya at 12:37am on Sunday (2137 GMT Saturday), Police Inspector General Joseph Boinnet said on his Twitter Account.
"It requested an emergency landing when a device suspected to be an explosive was discovered in the lavatory," police spokesman Charles Owino said.
“Bomb experts from the Navy and DCI (Directorate of Criminal Investigations) have retrieved the device and are determining whether the components contained explosives,” Boinnet said.
“The plane just went down slowly, slowly, slowly, so we just realized probably something was wrong,” said a passenger who identified himself as Benoit Luchini of Paris. He spoke to journalists after leaving the plane in Mombasa.
“The personnel of Air France was just great, they were just wonderful. So they keep everybody calm. We did not know what was happening,” said Luchini. “So we secured the seat belt to land in Mombasa because we thought it was a technical problem but actually it was not a technical problem. It was something in the toilet. Something wrong in the toilet, it could be a bomb.”
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