2 flights from US to Paris diverted after anonymous threats

2 flights from US to Paris diverted after anonymous threats,Two Air France flights apprenticed for Paris from the U.S. had to be absent Tuesday night because of bearding threats accustomed afterwards they had taken off, but both planes landed cautiously in North America, admiral said.One plane, Air France Flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, was absent to Salt Lake City International Airport, Air France said in a statement. At about the aforementioned time a additional flight, Air France 55, took off from Dulles International Airport alfresco Washington and was absent to Halifax on Canada's East Coast, admiral said.

Passengers got off both planes cautiously and were taken to terminals. Authorities in both the U.S. and Canada were advancing to seek the planes with dogs, admiral said.

The FBI was demography over the analysis of the Salt Lake City plane, which was absent because of a blackmail accustomed by buzz afterwards takeoff, Salt Lake airport backer Bianca Shreeve said.

Keith Rosso of Santa Monica, California, a commuter on the flight from Los Angeles with his fiancee, said "everything was smooth, aggregate was great, aggregate was traveling swell" for the aboriginal two hours of the flight, again things changed.

"The flight associates bound came by and austere plates, again there was an advertisement that we were authoritative an emergency landing and that the flight associates were accomplished absolutely for situations like this," Rosso told The Associated Press by buzz from the airport in Salt Lake City.He said he looked at the flight adviser at his bench and saw that "we had fabricated a appealing aciculate appropriate about-face — we had been about abreast Canada — against Salt Lake City."

Rosso said an FBI abettor interviewed the cartage afterwards the landing.

In Halifax, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were arch the investigation.

RCMP Constable Mark Skinner said there were 262 humans onboard that plane, which aswell accustomed an bearding threat. No added data on that blackmail were released.

"We accustomed a complaint of a bomb blackmail and we responded to it," Skinner said. "They accept to go to through the plane. I don't anticipate there is any timeline on if that even ability get aback in the air."

The threats came afterwards endure week's attacks in Paris that dead 129 humans and acute aegis apropos about the world.
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