MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Sunday, the Boeing 777 plane flying from Mauritius to Paris with 473 people on board made an emergency landing in the second-largest Kenyan city of Mombasa due to a suspicious object found by a passenger. The airport authority said Kenyan bomb experts had discovered a bomb, the information later disproved by the authority itself.
"After analysis, it is indicated that it is a bomb hoax. All the information we have gathered at this moment indicates that the object was not able to create an explosion or damages to the airplane, but it was more a set of cardboard, paper and a household timer. It's a bomb hoax," Gagey told a news conference, as quoted by The Telegraph newspaper.
According to local media reports, five people have been arrested in relation to the incident.
The Air France airline is due to send a plane to Kenya to pick up passengers from Mombasa.
