U.S. flights to Paris diverted by bomb threats

Two Air France flights headed from the United
States to Paris were diverted because of bomb
threats, officials said.
Flight 65, en route from Los Angeles to Paris,
was diverted to Salt Lake City after a bomb
threat was called in from the ground, a U.S.
government official said.
The official did not know whether anyone was
arrested and was not aware of any unruly
passengers on board.
Shortly afterward, Air France Flight 55 from
Washington's Dulles International Airport to
Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to
an airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia -- also because
of a bomb threat, a government source said.
Air France Flight 55 lands at Halifax Stanfield
International Airport in Canada.
"Several law enforcement agencies are
working ... to determine the nature of the
threats which caused the aircraft to divert,"
FBI Special Agent Todd Palmer of the Salt
Lake City division said.
No U.S. military aircraft were scrambled in either
incident, NORAD spokesman Preston Schlachter
said.
"Diversion of flights are the most draconian
response to a bomb threat," CNN national
security analyst Juliette Kayyem said.
Officers searched the plane that landed in Salt
Lake City and rendered it safe, Salt Lake City
Airport Police Chief Craig Vargo said.
He said airport officials have turned the plane
back over to Air France, which was preparing the
plane for departure.