Two Air France flights have been diverted due to bomb threats

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

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

Both aircraft – flight 65 out of Los Angeles, and flight 55 out of Dulles worldwide Airport in Virginia outside the USA capital – have landed safely. Both planes reportedly landed safely. He said passengers were told the security check could take two to four hours.

“The flight attendants quickly came by and cleared plates, then there was an announcement that we were making an emergency landing and that the flight attendants were trained exactly for situations like this”, Rosso told The Associated Press by phone from the airport in Salt Lake City.

In its Twitter message, the airline said that “as a precautionary measure”, the two flights were diverted. The mounted police said later Tuesday night that the number of passengers and crew members had been revised to 262.

A former Miami Beach Police Officer is being investigated by the State Attorney’s Office after he was allegedly caught on camera slapping a homeless man in the face in 2014. No further details were given on the threat to the other plane. “I think right now we take this seriously until we hear a few explanation to the validity of the bomb threat”.

A spokesman at Halifax Stanfield worldwide Airport said the Washington-to-Paris Boeing 777 with 298 people on board landed without incident at 10:15 p.m. AT and that the airport was operational. He said passengers will go through Canadian customs, pick up their baggage and be put up at hotels overnight.