Air India package contained tools: Police
A suspicious package that forced an Air Indiahttp://indiatouring.com/
jet to return to Toronto late Monday was not an explosive device but a “uniquely packaged set of tools, police say.
Flight 188 was about one hour into its flight, which was to include a scheduled stop in Birmingham, England, when a suspicious package was found in one of the washrooms.
Somewhere over Montreal, a passenger was in one of the bathrooms and noticed what he believed to be a suspicious package, said Sgt. Peter Brandwood of Peel Regional Police.
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