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Air France flight makes emergency landing in Kenya over bomb scare
BBC ^ | 20 Dec 2015

Posted on 12/20/2015 12:41:26 AM PST by libtoken

Air France flight makes emergency landing in Kenya over bomb scare

1 hour ago

An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris has been forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a suspect package was found on board.

The pilots of the Boeing 777 requested to land at Moi International Airport in Mombasa after the package was discovered in the toilet.

The aircraft was safely evacuated and the item is now being examined by bomb experts, police spokesman Charles Owino said. (snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airfrance; bombscare; emergencylanding; france; kenya; mauritius; mombasa; paris
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1 posted on 12/20/2015 12:41:26 AM PST by libtoken
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To: libtoken

I am sure many of us have left dangerous things in a toilet.


2 posted on 12/20/2015 1:03:39 AM PST by LukeL
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To: LukeL

And the White House.


3 posted on 12/20/2015 1:34:20 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BerryDingle

You’re talking about sitting at the desk in the Oval Office?

More destructive than a bomb for sure.


4 posted on 12/20/2015 3:46:56 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: libtoken

They did find a bomb, folks.


5 posted on 12/20/2015 3:54:14 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

Pardon me, but did you say Clocked was on that flight?


6 posted on 12/20/2015 4:06:56 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

clockmed


7 posted on 12/20/2015 4:07:20 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: libtoken

Reading “Operation Thunderbolt” about the AirFrance 139 flight hijacked in 1976 by PLO sympathizers and diverted to Uganda.... When I read that this flight was an AirFrance diverted to Kenya, it brought memories of that ‘76 flight....


8 posted on 12/20/2015 4:42:43 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: libtoken

“No credible threats”


9 posted on 12/20/2015 5:14:34 AM PST by tellw
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To: libtoken

Mauritius’s population is 17% Islam per Wikipedia


10 posted on 12/20/2015 5:20:27 AM PST by tellw
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To: libtoken

Yep: Confirmed - it’s a bomb. Not a clock.


11 posted on 12/20/2015 5:34:32 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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12 posted on 12/20/2015 5:35:02 AM PST by RummyChick
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All 459 passengers and 13 crew were escorted safely off the aircraft, while the bomb has been taken by the Kenyan navy to be detonated safely away from the airport.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/air-france-bomb-kenya-confirms-explosive-device-found-in-toilets-of-plane-carrying-473-people-from-a6780366.html


13 posted on 12/20/2015 5:35:48 AM PST by RummyChick
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White Tea Partiers? Amish? Or Muslim

Kenya: 6 suspects questioned over Air France bomb scare
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2015-12-20-AF—Kenya-Air-France%20Bomb%20Scare/id-c721606947b24287a80e63ededa3b880


14 posted on 12/20/2015 5:37:45 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

The police official, who is part of the investigation and who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said during the flight to Paris a passenger noticed something in one of the plane’s lavatories that looked like “a stopwatch mounted on a box.”

The passenger reported the suspicious device to the cabin crew and pilots requested an emergency landing.

The police official said the box has been taken apart and no explosives have been found but the digital watch has not yet been analyzed.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/174006.aspx


15 posted on 12/20/2015 5:52:38 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: libtoken
Has anyone asked Clock Boy about this?

Maybe it was just a high school project to get him a free ride at MIT...?

16 posted on 12/20/2015 6:23:26 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: libtoken

The new normal.

Who woulda thunk “defining deviancy down” could get ever lower and lower and lower?


17 posted on 12/20/2015 6:25:51 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

As Elaine once said to Jerry, on a long ago episode of Seinfeld, ‘every time I think you couldn’t get more shallow you drain another three inches out of the pool.’


18 posted on 12/20/2015 6:54:48 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: P.O.E.

“The object was not capable of causing an explosion,” Gagey said of an item made up of cardboard, pieces of paper and a timer that was found in a toilet cubicle on board the plane flying from Mauritius to Paris. – AFP, December 20, 2015. - See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/world/article/air-france-says-bomb-scare-was-false-alarm#sthash.sqYdv0Dt.dpuf


19 posted on 12/20/2015 7:14:55 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Civilization has always been somewhat of a thin veneer. Doesn’t take much to break the social contract.

Until the fear of the penalty outweighs the potential gain, evil will creep, skulk, and leap when it thinks it can get away with it.


20 posted on 12/20/2015 7:30:17 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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