Plane makes emergency landing in Florida over bomb threat
A Spirit Airlines flight has made an emergency landing at Fort Lauderdale International airport after officials said a bomb threat was made.
Fort Lauderdale officials say a person on board the flight made the threat, according to local CBS 12. "No apparent threat" has been detected, and no bomb was found aboard the aircraft.
.@browardsheriff#FireRescue#update@SpiritAirlines jet @FLLFlyer All passengers off jet, Explosives Detection K9s did not find anything
— Mike Jachles (@BSO_Mike) November 20, 2015Broward County officials say the plane is a Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 with 92 people on board.
@BrowardSheriff#FireRescue standing by for incoming @SpiritAirlines flight @FLLFlyer ref: passenger who made bomb threat/RadioTAC-2 #media
— Mike Jachles (@BSO_Mike) November 20, 2015Spirit Airlines is an ultra-low cost carrier that serves passengers in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
The airline had already been in hot water earlier this week for escorting a woman and three men off a plane for questioning on Tuesday. They were aboard a flight due to leave Baltimore for Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
This interruption in the flight’s departure came after a witness reported alleged “suspicious activity” to the flight crew, according to Maryland Transportation Authority police.
Police said the “suspicious activity” was one of the passengers watching a news report on a smartphone. Other passengers told the Baltimore Sun the four passengers were of Middle Eastern descent, but police would not release any information about them.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the passengers were targets of racial profiling and has sought an apology from the airline.
