A bomb threat has caused a flight from New York City to Istanbul to divert and land in Canada. The Turkish Airlines flight arrived at Halifax Stanfield International Airport early Sunday with 256 people on board and landed safely as police were at the scene.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police of Nova Scotia refused on its Twitter handle to comment on the details of the threat and were seeking to find the ones responsible. The police will be searching the plane for explosives using police dogs trained to sniff them out, according to NDTV.
The bomb threat was received at 10:50 p.m. local time (3:50 a.m. GMT), said the RCMP, but the flight had already taken off from John F Kennedy International Airport by then. In a similar event, Air France Flight 55 from Dulles International Airport outside Washington had to be diverted to Haifax when an anonymous phone call turned out to be a bomb threat after the plane had taken off. It was later confirmed that there was no evidence of a bomb being planted on the plane, the FBI said after a series of investigations, The Irish Independent reported.
Halifax Stanfield International Airport said on Twitter that Flight 2 had landed safely and that police were at the scene of the flight's arrival. The threat came a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, which have prompted officials worldwide, as well as airport authorities, to take precautionary measures and take these bomb threats seriously, according to The Times of India.
