A suspicious package found at Airbus factory site in Toulouse sparked a terror alert as 200 people were evacuated.
The item -- believed to be a box containing three cans of fizzy pop connected with wires -- raised suspicions that it could be a homemade bomb.
It was found in the engine of an Airbus A330 that was still being built.
But police and bomb squad experts who arrived at the scene and examined the threat said no explosives were present, a source told La Depeche du Midi.
On Wednesday, Islamic State released a picture claiming the Russian passenger plane was brought down by a similar device.
The image appeared in the latest edition of the extremists' magazine Dabiq.
The edition celebrates the recent Paris attacks and is entitled "Just Terror".
The magazine also claims to have images of passports belonging to victims who perished after the Metrojet flight exploded over Sinai.
It disintegrated in mid-air 23 minutes after taking off from popular tourist resort Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt for St Petersburg on October 31.
Islamic State also said it had originally planned to bring down a "Western' plane over Egypt's Sinai but changed its target to a Russian one after Moscow launched airstrikes in Syria."
An editorial claimed the Russian jet bombing and Paris terror attacks were "revenge exacted upon those who felt safe in the cockpits of their jets."
ISIS said it had smuggled the bomb onto the Russian plane after finding a security loophole at Sharm al-Sheikh airport.
Qantas Freight and Australia Post have entered the next chapter of their long-standing partnership with the arrival of the first of three additional Airbus A321 Passenger-to-Freighter (A321P2F) aircra...
BPE Air, the aviation company founded and wholly owned by entrepreneur Aldrew Crowe, reported approximately US$90 million in revenue in 2025, marking a major milestone in the growth of its integrated...
Velocity Maintenance Solutions, an FAA-certified provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul services, has announced a significant expansion of its facilities at Wilmington Airport (ILG) in Delaware,...
Piaggio Aerospace will return to NBAA-BACE this October, bringing its flagship P.180 Avanti EVO to one of the most important gatherings of the global business aviation community while also highlightin...
