Southwest Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Omaha After Bomb Threat

December 23, 2007

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A Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing here after a bomb threat was received Saturday night.

No explosives were found, and the 137 passengers on Flight 1018 from Las Vegas continued on to Hartford, Conn., after the unexpected layover of just over three hours, Southewest spokeswoman Christi Day said Sunday.

The threat was specific to Flight 1018 and was received by the airline at 8:40 p.m. CST, Day said. The plane landed at Eppley Airfield at 9:37 p.m., she said.

Passengers were bused to a field maintenance building while security personnel, using bomb-sniffing dogs, searched passenger and baggage compartments. Individual pieces of luggage also were searched on the tarmac.

Passengers went through a security screening before reboarding the plane, which departed Omaha at 12:49 a.m. CST and arrived in Hartford at 3:14 a.m. EST.

Day said she didn’t know where the threatening call originated or where it was received.

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