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The aircraft did manage to make a safe landing. Passengers waited in customs for about an hour-and-a-half as a Victoria police bomb sniffing dog screened the plane and all luggage “out of an abundance of caution”, Dickson said.

Travellers leaving Winnipeg said that the threats were a concern. A bomb threat written on a note was found in bathroom on an Air Canada plane before it left the gate.

“Our main priority remains to identify the origin of the call, and person(s) responsible”, Manitoba RCMP spokesman Bert Paquet said.

“Airlines and airports have protocols and plans in place for dealing with these sorts of threats”, she said in a statement.

Hyde says when determining whether or not a threat is real they have to look at a number of things including the length of a call, the particular flight targeted and the reason for the threat. “If it’s a hoax, it could be one or two people, or you could have… copycats”.

On Wednesday, a threat diverted a WestJet Vancouver-to-Toronto flight to Calgary. Six injured during evacuation using the emergency slide.

The confusion over jurisdiction is likely not the news officials want to hear at West-Jet, which likely has been dinged thousands or tens of thousands of dollars for each of the diverted planes.

“I would say that there is something more than we are being told”. Law enforcement determined threat was not credible.