Two Paris-bound Air France airliners were diverted Tuesday night after bomb threats.
Air France said both flights were ordered grounded after takeoff based on the anonymous phone threats. The planes landed safely, the airline said in a statement. Passengers have reportedly been evacuated.
AF55, an Air France flight from Washington, D.C., to Paris with 298 people on board, was diverted to Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia, according to the airline. A spokesperson for the airport said passengers were "exiting the plane," which had landed safely. Kelland Sundahl, a CBC journalist, said fire crews had arrived at the scene.
A second Air France plane, carrying 497 people from Los Angeles to Paris, was also grounded Tuesday night. That plane, AF65, landed in Salt Lake City.
KSL.com reporter Nicole Vowell said the diversion was "due to a bomb threat." She added that "airport police [and] multiple agencies" surrounded the airliner.
"Several law enforcement agencies are working in concert, following established protocol, to determine the nature of the threats which caused the aircraft to divert," Todd Palmer, an FBI special agent in Salt Lake City, said in a statement.
Salt Lake City International Airport spokeswoman Bianca Shreeve told The Associated Press that the empty plane was parked a safe distance from the terminal.
This is a developing story.
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