Charlotte Flight Gets Bomb Scare – FBI Deems Threat ‘Not Credible’
July 10, 2008 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
A bomb threat to a US Airways flight that was evacuated after landing at its destination has been deemed “not a credible threat,” the FBI said Thursday.
Flights at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport were back on a typical morning schedule Thursday, hours after a bomb scare isolated one US Airways flight and sent 104 passengers in for questioning.
“Dogs sniffed our bags and did the wand thing over all of us and patted us down, and as we were secured, they put us on a bus and took us to a little room,” passenger Lana Rosetta said.
[Grounded US Airways flight (WCNC)]
Grounded US Airways flight (WCNC)
US Airways Flight 1285 was scheduled to arrive in Charlotte from Baltimore at 9:18 p.m., but it didn’t land until 10 p.m., and airport officials would not let it taxi close to the terminal. Instead, the airplane’s pilots placed it in a secure area of the airport as federal agents searched the plane.
“I thought it was handled pretty well,” passenger Adam Carlson said. “As soon as we landed, they had us stopped, pulled over. They had fire trucks, ambulances, police cars right there.”
Bomb-sniffing dogs were called in to search the plane and passengers’ luggage, while the 104 people aboard were taken to a room and had to give their names, addresses and phone numbers to officers.
