The Air France Flight 65 plane that was diverted due to a bomb threat has been searched and rendered safe, Salt Lake City Airport Police Chief Craig Vargo said.
The plane was headed from Los Angeles to Paris.
Previously:
Two Air France flights were diverted Tuesday night because of bomb threats, officials said.
Both flights landed safely.
“Diversion of flights are the most draconian response to a bomb threat. I think right now we take this seriously until we hear some explanation to the validity of the bomb threat,” said CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem.
Flight 65, headed from Los Angeles to Paris, was diverted to Salt Lake City after a bomb threat was called in from the ground, a U.S. government official said.
The official did not know if anyone was arrested and was not aware of any unruly passengers on board.
“Several law enforcement agencies are working in concert, following established protocol, to determine the nature of the threats which caused the aircraft to divert,” FBI Special Agent Todd Palmer of the Salt Lake City division said.
Shortly afterward, Air France Flight 55 from Washington’s Dulles International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to an airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia — also due to a bomb threat, a government source said.
The source did not know if the same person called in both threats.
No U.S. military aircraft were scrambled in either of the reported Air France incidents, NORAD spokesman Preston Schlachter said.
‘Nobody knows what’s going on’
Trevor Moran was headed to Paris from Los Angeles to shoot a music video on Flight 65.
He said the pilot came on sand said the plane had to make an emergency landing.
“There were huge buses when we landed that they loaded us all on,” he told CNN.
“Everyone on the flight is waiting in this lobby. Nobody knows what’s going on.”
