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Device That Prompted Emergency Landing in Kenya Was a Fake Bomb, Air France Reportedly Says
ktla ^ | cnn wire

Posted on 12/20/2015 11:43:17 AM PST by BenLurkin

The CEO of Air France on Sunday described the device that prompted a diversion of Flight 463 to Kenya was a fake bomb, the AP reports.

Original post:

Kenyan authorities are questioning several passengers after an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya early Sunday after a suspicious device was found in a restroom.

Authorities have removed the device from the plane and are working to determine whether it contains explosives.

Air France Flight 463, a Boeing 777, departed from Mauritius late Saturday night with 473 people aboard, headed for Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, Kenyan police chief Joseph Boinnet said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airfrance; clockboy; device; emergencylanding; fake; fakebomb; france; kenya; mauritius; mombasa; paris

1 posted on 12/20/2015 11:43:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Trial run for the real deal?


2 posted on 12/20/2015 11:45:02 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: BenLurkin

Clock Boy strikes again!


3 posted on 12/20/2015 11:45:10 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: BenLurkin

in before the “I dropped a different kind of bomb in the airport toilet once” posts


4 posted on 12/20/2015 11:46:45 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: BenLurkin

They should have just rolled down a window and tossed it out.


5 posted on 12/20/2015 11:49:28 AM PST by ASA Vet (930 SPX)
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To: ASA Vet

Light it and drop it over mecca.


6 posted on 12/20/2015 11:51:22 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Rubio not voting on OmniSpend is RINO for 'smart'.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wait, hold on. Are we sure this isn’t an Islamic kid’s clock ‘school project’?


7 posted on 12/20/2015 11:51:29 AM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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To: BenLurkin

Is Clock Boy having a little fun again, where is he haven’t heard about him in a while, did he find a little suicide vest that fits him


8 posted on 12/20/2015 11:55:52 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Jim from C-Town

You beat me to it!


9 posted on 12/20/2015 11:57:21 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Clockmed?


10 posted on 12/20/2015 11:57:33 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: BenLurkin

Clock Boy must have been on board and he forgot one of his toys.


11 posted on 12/20/2015 12:44:22 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: BenLurkin

They will all be fake until....one isn’t!


12 posted on 12/20/2015 12:59:29 PM PST by beelzepug (2 Timothy 2:23 Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments...")
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