Bomb threat prompts plane from Los Angeles to divert to Salt Lake City; 2nd flight, from Washington, lands at Halifax, Nova Scotia

An Air France plane that diverted to Salt Lake City Tuesday November 17, 2015 (CNN Screenshot)
An Air France plane that diverted to Salt Lake City Tuesday November 17, 2015 (CNN Screenshot)

 

Two Air France passenger planes heading from the US to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport were diverted late Tuesday amid security scares.

Both planes landed safely, CNN reported.

The FBI is said to be investigating the nature of the threat.

Air France flight 65 from Los Angeles, with 497 passengers on board, was diverted to the Salt Lake City International Airport after receiving a bomb threat, airport officials said according to website KSL.com.

The plane had left Los Angeles for France when the threat came in. It landed in Salt Lake City around 7:30 p.m. Passengers were getting off the plane as the FBI and airport police investigated, the website said. The investigation was expected to last a few hours, according to some reports. But the Air France website says the flight is set to take off again in two hours’ time.

A second Air France flight, from Washington’s Dulles International Airport, was also diverted, and landed safely in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It had 298 passengers and crew. A passenger said there was “some kind of security threat,” CNN reported.

As reported by The Times of Israel