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Diversion latest in airliner security incidents

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This Delta Air Lines jet is taken off the tarmac after a bomb threat Friday at Hartsfield airport in Atlanta.  


CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- The diversion of an Atlantic Coast Airlines flight traveling from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, was the latest in a series of security-related incidents involving U.S. airliners this week.

The plane was diverted Friday morning to the airport in Cleveland, Ohio, because of an "unruly passenger," a spokesman for Delta Air Lines said. Atlantic Coast is a partner of Delta.

Steve Forsyth, the Delta spokesman, did not go into detail about the diversion, but said the plane, carrying 18 passengers, landed safely. The unruly passenger was removed.

Flight 6116, Forsyth said, was expected to continue to New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Also Friday, a Delta Air Lines jet was searched after a bomb threat at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. The search forced the flight, scheduled to travel to Boston, Massachusetts, to be canceled. The Federal Aviation Administration issued an "all-clear" announcement after the search.

Delta spokesman Tom Donahue said it was a "security-related" incident aboard the aircraft and would not release further details, but a Hartsfield International Airport spokeswoman said it was a bomb scare.

Aviation sources said the threat was called in two hours before the plane was to depart.

Hartsfield police were checking the plane, which the Delta Web site said was a Boeing 767.

Flight 350 was scheduled to depart at 8:10 a.m., before authorities were alerted. No one had yet boarded the aircraft.

On Thursday a United Airlines flight from Miami, Florida, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, a man tried unsuccessfully to force his way into the plane's cockpit. A Uruguayan man was charged in the incident and was taken from Buenos Aires to Miami in the custody of the FBI. He was expected to appear in court Friday.



 
 
 
 





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