Police Arrest Passenger in Delta Bomb Threat

Monday, January 19, 2004

DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish police detained a 19-year-old German man
Monday in connection with a bomb threat that forced a
Frankfurt-to-Atlanta Delta Air Lines (search) plane to make an
emergency landing in Ireland.

Police in Shannon, western Ireland, where the jet landed Sunday, said
they were questioning the man, who was a passenger on the diverted
flight. Police did not identify the man.

Police spokeswoman Sinead O'Hara said the man had been arrested under
the Air Navigation and Transport Act but was not charged. She would
not say whether police believed he was the person who left a note in a
bathroom suggesting there could be a bomb aboard the plane.

A search of the plane turned up no evidence of a bomb.

Detectives had questioned the flight's 147 passengers and searched the
plane before declaring it safe Sunday night.

Delta said the remaining passengers would be flown to Atlanta later
Monday.

In April, a United Airlines flight from London to New York City made
an emergency landing at Shannon after a crew member found a note with
a bomb threat in a seat-back pocket.

Police searched the plane and questioned passengers, but found nothing
suspicious.



Ken (NY)
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