Two flights from US to Paris diverted after bomb threats

By News Staff

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Officials say an Air France flight heading to Paris from Los Angeles was diverted to Salt Lake City after a phoned-in bomb threat. The plane landed without incident and all the passengers got off safely.                 

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says Air France Flight 65, an Airbus A-380, had taken off from Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday night for Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.            

Salt Lake City International Airport spokeswoman Bianca Shreeve says the empty plane is a safe distance from the terminal, and the FBI is taking over the investigation with assistance from airport police and K-9 units.       

She did not yet know whether the plane had been searched or have any further details on the phone threat.

Not long after, 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.

Hundreds of passengers on each plane were evacuated after the flights landed.

© The Associated Press/WLNE-TV 2015