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Two U.S.-to-Paris Air France flights diverted due to threats
Jets make puncture landings in Utah and Canada; after given all-clear.
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Officials contend dual Air France flights firm for Paris from a U.S. were diverted since of threats on Tuesday night. One craft landed in Salt Lake City, Utah. The other landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Both planes have been cleared. (Nov. 18)
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Passengers exit Air France moody 65, from Los Angeles to Paris, after an puncture alighting in Salt Lake City, Nov. 17, 2015.(Photo: Courtesy Kathleen Ingley)
Two Air France flights drifting from a U.S. to Paris were diverted to airfields in Utah and Canada Tuesday night due to unknown threats.
The airline reliable that a bomb hazard stirred it to miscarry Air France Flight 65 headed from Los Angeles to Paris and obstruct it to Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, Air France pronounced it also diverted a Flight 55 that over from Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C., for Paris and redirected it to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada, since of a similar threat.
Both planes were after privileged to fly by authorities.
In Salt Lake City, passengers were seen exiting a hulk Airbus A380 plane and the FBI and airfield military began investigating, according to internal hire KSL-TV.
Kathleen Ingley, 65, of Phoenix, pronounced she and other passengers on Flight 65 were finishing cooking use when a atmosphere vigour began to change. Ingley, a freelance publisher and former Arizona Republic editorial writer, was drifting to Paris to revisit her daughter’s family, a outing she creates 3 or 4 times a year.
“And afterwards a moody attendants told us we would be creation an puncture landing,” Ingley pronounced by phone from a Salt Lake City International Airport. “They told us to put trays on a building and tie a chair belts and get anything out of a aisles. No one had any thought what a problem was. Every probable unfolding runs by your mind.”
Keith Rosso of Santa Monica, California, a newcomer on a moody from Los Angeles with his fiancee, pronounced “everything was smooth, all was great, all was going swell” for a initial dual hours of a flight, afterwards things changed.
“The moody attendants fast came by and privileged plates, afterwards there was an proclamation that we were creation an puncture alighting and that a moody attendants were lerned accurately for situations like this,” Rosso told The Associated Press by phone from the airport.
Emergency vehicles lay parked nearby an Air France craft that was diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, in Salt Lake City. Officials pronounced dual Air France flights firm for Paris from a U.S. had to be diverted since of unknown threats expelled after they took off, though both planes landed safely. (Photo: Ravell Call, AP)
He pronounced he looked during a moody guard during his chair and saw that “we had done a flattering pointy right spin — we had been roughly nearby Canada — toward Salt Lake City.”
The jet made a discerning skirmish toward a Utah capital, where it was greeted on a tarmac by some-more than a dozen puncture vehicles. Ingley pronounced passengers exited a craft with their bags and were bused to another partial of a airfield to be interviewed and have their bags searched.
Officials on a belligerent during a airfield told passengers that a explosve hazard had stirred a puncture landing, Ingley said.
Recording artist Trevor Moran tweeted that he was on a flight.
Air France posted a matter on Twitter late Tuesday observant both flights had been subjects of unknown threats perceived “after their particular take-offs.” It did not elaborate on a threats though pronounced authorities would control an review to brand “the source of a write call.”
In Salt Lake City, authorities found no convincing threat, according to an FBI matter expelled late Tuesday night, and a jet over during about midnight, airport mouthpiece Bianca Shreeve said.
And in Halifax, airfield orator Peter Spurway told a AP that military had privileged a craft to fly again. He pronounced passengers went through Canadian etiquette and were put adult during hotels overnight. Later, a airline pronounced that a passengers would leave Halifax on Wednesday evening.
The threats came after final week’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and heightened confidence concerns around a world.
Contributing: The Arizona Republic, The Associated Press
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