A US Airways plane with 157 passengers was evacuated during a stop in Philadelphia Friday after a threatening note was received, but a search of the aircraft turned up no explosives.
US Airways Flight 968 had arrived from Glasgow and was preparing to depart Philadelphia International Airport for Anchorage, Alaska, when the US Transportation Security Administration ordered that it be evacuated.
‘Nothing explosive was found inside,’ FBI Special Agent JJ Klaver told AFP.
He said the threatening letter was received in London and provided to the FBI by Scotland Yard. The investigation is now closed.
The TSA said earlier it had decided to deplane passengers and have officers sweep the aircraft ‘out of an abundance of caution’ after receiving a ‘threatening note’.
‘We received a call from the TSA and after discussion, we evacuated the flight,’ US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder said.
