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There was a bomb scare atbyfrominofonwith an Air France flight atbyfrominofonwith Sunday. The plane was flying atbyfrominofonwith the Indian Ocean island atbyfrominofonwith Mauritius to Paris. A passenger found a strange-looking device made atbyfrominofonwith a kitchen timer, cardboard and paper in a toilet. They alerted staff and the pilot decided to make an emergency landing atbyfrominofonwith the Kenyan port city atbyfrominofonwith Mombasa, which was the nearest airport. Air France's CEO Frederic Gagey said the device was harmless and caused a "false alarm". He said that someone probably put it atbyfrominofonwith the toilet atbyfrominofonwith some point during the flight. Mr Gagey added: "All the information available to us at the moment indicates that the object was not capable atbyfrominofonwith creating an explosion or damaging a plane."

Some atbyfrominofonwith the passengers were put atbyfrominofonwith alternative flights to Paris. Five others are being questioned atbyfrominofonwith the police. A Kenyan police chief told the Reuters news agency that: "[Some people] are now airborne, but a few among them, who we were interrogating, have remained atbyfrominofonwith us, until ongoing investigations are done." The plane was carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew members. One atbyfrominofonwith those on board said the crew told them that the plane was being diverted because atbyfrominofonwith a technical problem. He said: "The plane just went down, slowly, slowly, slowly, so we just realised probably something was wrong." He added: "The crew atbyfrominofonwith Air France were just great, just wonderful. They kept everybody calm and really quiet."