Two US flights receive new bomb threats
Two US airline flights on Saturday received bomb threats less than a week after another bomb threat at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport grounded two planes.
North American air defense fighter planes had to accompany the planes to land at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Saturday.
However, no bombs were found aboard either after police bomb squad and the FBI carried out searches.
Passengers on Delta Air Lines flight 1156, coming from Portland, Oregon, and Southwest Airlines flight 2492, from Milwaukee received “credible” bomb threats via social media.
“We believe the threats to be credible,” airport spokesman Reese McCranie told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In a message to a Delta Twitter account, a Twitter user wrote he had planted bombs on the two planes, according to several media outlets.
"I have a bomb on one of your planes, but I forgot which one when I left the airport. Can you help me find it?" read the message.
Another tweet read that the bomb “was smuggled through one of the back entrances” adding “so the bomb is at the back of the plane. Everyone will know when it’s detonated.”
Later messages to Southwest Airlines from the same Twitter account read that a bomb was planted on SWA2492 and it will go off any time of “my choosing.”
The FBI confirmed that the threats were made via Twitter; however, neither the agency nor the airport confirmed the source of the threats.
On Monday night, passengers on board two other Delta flights were told to get off each of the planes after a bomb threat was made against them.
Passengers from both planes were evacuated and transported to the terminal but later both planes were allowed to take off.
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