Air France flight makes an emergency landing in Mombasa after bomb was discovered

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Air France flight makes an emergency landing in Mombasa after bomb was discovered

An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya on Saturday night after a suspicious package was found on board, Kenyan police said.

Flight AF 463, which had 459 passengers and 14 crew members on board, had left Mauritius at 9pm local time and was due to arrive in Paris Charles de Gaulle at 5:50am today.

It landed at Moi International Airport, Mombasa, before 1 a.m local time.

On 8 December, an Air France flight from San Francisco, going to Paris also landed in Montreal, following a bomb scare