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  • Jan 22nd, 2010
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A passenger was arrested Thursday in a Philadelphia airport after a reported bomb threat on a plane from New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said. "There's an individual in custody," an FBI spokesman in Philadelphia told AFP. A US Airways flight bound from LaGuardia in New York to Louisville in Kentucky was diverted to Philadelphia International Airport for security reasons, Morgan Dunnant, an airline spokesman, told AFP.

"The plane landed without incident in Philadelphia and the passengers and crew are back in the air terminal being reaccommodated. There was a security concern but I can't comment on that," he said. The details of the incident, which fueled jitters throughout the US air travel system, were not immediately clear. According to CBS 3, a male passenger strapped a wire from his fingers to his head.

"We don't have any information now," the FBI spokesman said. "There's a plane on the ground in Philadelphia. We've got all our units there." US security services and airports have been on high alert since an alleged attempt on December 25 by a Nigerian man to set off a bomb on a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. The man's device allegedly malfunctioned and he was quickly overpowered by passengers and the airliner's crew.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2010


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