ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 182545
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| Date: | Sunday 20 December 2015 |
| Time: | 00:37 LT |
| Type: |  Boeing 777-328ER |
| Owner/operator: | Air France |
| Registration: | F-GZNN |
| MSN: | 40376/1013 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2012 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 473 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Location: | Mombasa-Moi International Airport (MBA/HKMO) -
 Kenya
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Mauritius-Plaisance International Airport (MRU/FIMP) |
| Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG/LFPG) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
An Air France Boeing 777-300 flying from Mauritius to Paris with 459 passengers and 14 crew members on board diverted to Moi International airport in Mombasa, Kenya due to a suspicious object on board that looked like "a stop watch mounted on a box".
After landing all passengers were safely evacuated using two emergency slides.
A bag was found unattended in the toilet. Kenya Navy specialists and police bomb experts safely retrieved. The Kenya Airport Authority later stated that the object was a bomb, but retracted this statement to say it was a 'suspicious package'.
Sources:
https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2015/12/air-france-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-mombasa-over-bomb-scare/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35144471
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 13 December 2020 | F-GZNN | Air France | 0 | 490 km NNE of Caracas, Venezuela |  |
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Media:
French plane in emergency landing after bomb scare - VIDEO https://t.co/gcaO3O7V8t pic.twitter.com/WEQWZk48qI
— Daily Nation (@dailynation) December 20, 2015
We confirm of an emergency landing by Air France's flight from Mauritius at Moi Int'l Airport this morning after reports...
Posted by Kenya Airports Authority on Sunday, 20 December 2015
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Dec-2015 12:31 | ItheWaWambui | Added |
| 20-Dec-2015 12:35 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 20-Dec-2015 13:35 | harro | Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
| 20-Dec-2015 14:18 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
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