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Air France Flight Held Up by Bomb Call Last Week

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(Newser) – An Air France flight scheduled from Buenos Aires to Paris was delayed last week because of a phoned-in bomb threat, according to Brazilian media. Authorities searched the plane for 90 minutes before allowing it to take off. Nothing was found. The delay occurred just three days before Air France flight 447 traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris mysteriously crashed into the Atlantic. Salvage crews are racing today to the scene where the plane's wreckage was spotted yesterday.

French army air crewman aboard an Atlantic Model 2 aircraft search for wreckage of Air France flight 447.
French army air crewman aboard an Atlantic Model 2 aircraft search for wreckage of Air France flight 447.   (AP Photo/ECPAD/French Defense Minister/HO)
French army air crewman hunt for wreckage of downed Air France flight 447.
French army air crewman hunt for wreckage of downed Air France flight 447.   (AP Photo/ECPAD/French Defense Minister)
Air France planes sit parked at Roissiy-Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris.
Air France planes sit parked at Roissiy-Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris.   (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, file)
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NaderPaulKucinichGravel
Jun 3, 09 7:17 AM CDT
Massive cover-up being sold. Reply
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Observer
Jun 3, 09 8:22 AM CDT
I'm not the only one who thought "bomb" immediately. No Airbus had ever crashed in service before. Reply
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Yourself
Jun 3, 09 10:17 AM CDT
just cause it's never happened before, doesn't mean they'll go on for ever without a crash. that being said, this story does make me thing something was different, but what if it turns out to be a bomb, i'd like to know why a 90 minute long search yielded NOTHING.
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Fondue
Jun 3, 09 11:23 AM CDT
Perhaps it was the wrong flight to Paris searched, or maybe they should have searched all flights to Paris.
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