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   alarm      capable      device      device      emergency      flight      flight      members      moment      nearby      news      other      passenger      passenger      pilot      pilot      plane      probably      quiet      scare      technical      timer      toilet      toilet      us      wonderful      wrong  
There was a bomb on an Air France flight. The plane was flying from Mauritius to Paris. A found something strange-looking in a . It was a kitchen timer, cardboard and paper. The passenger alerted the and he made an emergency landing at a airport in Kenya. Air France's CEO said the was harmless and caused a "false ". He said someone put it in the toilet during the . The CEO said: "All the information available to us at the indicates that the object was not of creating an explosion or damaging a plane."

Some of the passengers flew on flights to Paris. Police are questioning five others. The police told the Reuters agency that: "[Some people]…have remained with , until ongoing investigations are done." There were 459 passengers and 14 crew on board. The crew told passengers that the plane was being diverted because of a problem. A passenger said: "The just went down, slowly…so we just realised something was ." He added: "The crew of Air France were just great, just . They kept everybody calm and really ."

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