Air France flights diverted after bomb threats

Air France Flight 65 was travelling from Los Angelels to Paris when it was diverted to Salt Lake City after reports of a bomb threat.

Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted Tuesday evening, after at least one of the planes was the subject of a bomb threat.

According to a statement released late Tuesday night by the FBI’s field office in Salt Lake City, law enforcement performed “intensive security checks” and no explosives or related evidence was recovered.

The plane was headed from Los Angeles to Paris.

One source tells ABC News the telephone threats were made at the same time. Those in Halifax were said to be transported by bus from the airport, which was reported to have taken just over an hour.

Frank Mather, 59, who was travelling back from visiting a friend in Washington to his home in Scotland, said passengers remained calm after receiving word of the diversion.

A separate Boeing 777 that left Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., Flight 55, was diverted to Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia, which said 262 passengers and crew members had safely disembarked. He says that is when he started to look for answers online and learned shortly after his flight was diverted because a bomb threat came in. The flight was carrying 497 passengers and crew who were evacuated from the plane upon landing, according to an airport official.

The flight landed without further incident at about 7:30 p.m. where hundreds of passengers were deplaned safely. They were expected to continue their flight to Paris.

“I think it was really handled very well, you see all of these people up and around helping us out the best they could, ” Silver told the Canadian Press.

He said he looked at the flight monitor at his seat and saw that “we had made a pretty sharp right turn – we had been nearly near Canada – toward Salt Lake City”.

The threats come on the heels of the deadly attacks in Paris on Friday, in which armed men and suicide bombers killed at least 129 people. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for both attacks.