Feds Investigating Bomb Threat Against JetBlue Flight That Landed In Long Beach
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Federal authorities are investigating a hoax bomb threat made against a JetBlue flight that landed in Long Beach.
The Press-Telegram reports that JetBlue authorities were alerted to the threat at 7:25 p.m. Friday via a post on Twitter.
Long Beach airport spokeswoman Kerry Gerot says the threat turned out to be a hoax, but authorities dispatched bomb sniffing dogs when the plane arriving from Seattle landed shortly after 8 p.m.
Gerot says it is unclear whether the threat was an attempt to get the local SWAT team dispatched to the airport under the pretense of a false emergency.
Similar incidents have occurred in which pranksters made false emergency calls to celebrities' homes.
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