An Air France plane was grounded after a tip off by French authorities that a terrorist group might be planning to detonate a bomb in midair.
The jet, bound for Paris, was searched by more than 60 technicians, bomb experts and a sniffer dogs after it was grounded at Venezuela’s Caracas airport yesterday, said the Daily Mail.
Venezuelan Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said French authorities had information from a "credible source" that a terrorist group planned to place a bomb aboard an unspecified flight from Caracas to Paris, or vice versa.
The route is served only by Air France.
France is involved with two ongoing military interventions in former African colonies, in Mali and in Central African Republic.
The flight to Paris was rescheduled for yesterday evening.
