A flight from Paris bound for Charlotte was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after reports say a passenger claimed to be carrying a bomb inside her.
US Airways flight 787--which left Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport shortly after 11:00 a.m. local time en route to Charlotte Douglas International--was rerouted to Bangor, Maine, shortly after noon ET, CNN reported. The Boeing 767 was carrying 179 passengers and a crew of nine, a spokesman for the airline said, confirming that there had been an unspecified "security issue."
A Homeland Security official told NBC News that the flight was diverted because a "passenger was acting suspiciously."
According to CNN, a French woman on board the flight handed a note to a flight attendant, claiming that she had a surgically implanted explosive inside of her. The woman was traveling alone, CNN said.
Two F-15 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the flight over the Atlantic, NORAD said. The plane landed safely in Bangor.
"[We are] aware of reports of a passenger who exhibited suspicious behavior during flight," the TSA
said in a statement. "Out of an abundance of caution the flight was diverted to BGR where it was met by law enforcement."
According to US Airways, the flight was scheduled to leave Bangor at 1:00 p.m. and arrive in Charlotte at 3:27 p.m. ET, though as of 1:50 p.m. was still shown sitting on the tarmac.
It's not the first time a flight from Paris has been diverted to Bangor. In 2010, a Delta flight from Paris to Atlanta was
diverted to Bangor after a man claimed to be carrying dynamite in his luggage. The man, Derek Stansberry, a 26-year-old Air Force veteran from Florida, was later found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Just last week, a US Airways flight from Maine to Philadelphia was interrupted when a man allegedly tried to enter the cockpit. That flight was diverted to Boston, and the man was arrested.
The stories coming out of the spin doctors is getting very weak. I find it very hard to believe a passenger managed to get through all the invasive search/scanning devices - only to board a plane - and then hand a note to the stewardess....
This story and many others like it reek of falsity - lack of detail and totally implausible. The cabal/illuminati/whatever must be feeling as though they are losing their grip. Many many many people are now in the awakened state and many many many more are rousing and asking a myriad of questions.
Articles like this one serve as a desperate attempt to keep society believing that flying on aeroplanes is a safety risk and the government is catching all the 'bad' people. The cabal/illuminati/whatever need to stop what they are doing - but - psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists do not just stop - do they? They need to self destruct and fortunately that does happen - when they do - the rest of us will start the massive clean up operation this beautiful planet and her population have been needing.
Much Peace...
NB Catching the risky people like the elderly, the frail, Children, physically challenged Children - someone with a note - my God the people on that flight must be sooooo glad that note was apprehended by two fighter jets and did no harm....