PARIS TERROR ATTACKS: Two flights bound for Paris from the US have been diverted due to security threats. Earlier today, German police evacuated fans from a Hannover stadium after a ‘concrete threat’. Both events come as French police hunt for a second fugitive responsible for the terror attacks in Paris last Friday. You can catch up on how yesterday’s events unfolded here, and we’ll update this story throughout the day with fresh developments.
2.45pm: Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States have been diverted due to security threats.
CNN reports that one jet was diverted to Salt Lake City, Utah, after taking off from Los Angeles, while the second left Washington and was diverted to Halifax, Canada.
Both planes - flight 65 out of Los Angeles, and flight 55 out of Dulles International Airport in Virginia outside the US capital - have landed safely.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman confirmed to AFP that flight 65 was diverted to Salt Lake City.
“It landed safely,” she said but declined to comment on the reported security threat.
“Passengers are being removed from flight. No word on why flight diverted,” Canada’s CBC said on Twitter of the jet that landed in Nova Scotia.
Social media comments alluded to an emergency landing of the jet that left Los Angeles, saying it had touched down in Utah, with many police cars on the tarmac.
“It was diverted to Salt Lake City because of a security incident,” CNN quoted the FAA as saying. We’ll bring you more on this when we have it.
- AFP