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发帖数: 2904 | 1 Fighter Jets Scramble Following Reports of Multiple Threats to Passenger
Planes, Officials Say
An Air France plane was escorted to JFK Airport in New York City this
morning after an anonymous threat was made against the flight -- one of
several threats made to multiple airplanes bound for different U.S. airports
, law enforcement officials told ABC News.
The FBI said the plane has since been checked and cleared with "no incidents
or hazards reported on board the flight by either the passengers or its
crew."
Authorities said that the decision to have the plane escorted by two fighter
jets was done "out of an abundance of caution" after the Maryland State
Police McHenry Barrack, in Garrett County received an anonymous call of a “
chemical weapons threat” aboard Air France Flight 22, which was en route
from Paris to New York City airport.
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The threat was not considered to be credible as law enforcement and aviation
officials told ABC News that they are responding to multiple, unconfirmed
threats to multiple airplanes bound for different airports.
As for the Air France flight, two American fighter jets scrambled to
accompany the New York-bound flight as it headed towards the airport. The
tip was called in at 6:45 a.m. on an untraceable line and the caller did not
identify himself, a senior federal official told ABC News.
The two F15 planes were scrambled and followed the plane into U.S. airspace,
but they flew in a way so that the passengers and crew would not be able to
see the military planes, the sources said.
The caller said that four flights had devices on board -- but only specified
the JFK-bound Air France flight.
The Airbus A-330 has since landed and was taken between two runways and
locked down while the threat is investigated.
A police dispatch that was sent out after the jets were scrambled noted that
the area where the plane was taken is generally known as the "hijack site"
because it is the area used in such scenarios. During an initial
investigation, nothing dangerous has been found on board, the federal
official told ABC. |
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