Two Air France flights diverted after security scares

The plane landed without incident and all the passengers got off safely.

Over 400 passengers were evacuated from the plane in Salt Lake City and transported to customs, according to KSL.com.

No USA military aircraft were scrambled in either of the reported Air France incidents, NORAD spokesman Preston Schlachter said.

Flight 65, headed from Los Angeles to Paris, was diverted to Salt Lake City after a bomb threat was called in from the ground, a USA government official said.

Both flights have landed safely. The FBI is investigating on the scene.

Keith Rosso of Santa Monica, California, a passenger on the flight from Los Angeles with his fiancee, said “everything was smooth, everything was great, everything was going swell” for the first two hours of the flight, then things changed.

In Halifax, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police led the investigation.

“Diversion of flights are the most draconian response to a bomb threat”.

Shreeve did not know details of the threat, or whether it was connected to a series of deadly attacks this weekend in Paris.

A separate flight that left Dulles global Airport outside Washington was diverted to Halifax worldwide Airport in Nova Scotia also because of an unspecified security concern, the FAA said.