2 AF Flights diverted to for security reasons
 

AF 65 from LAX to CDG diverted to Salt Lake City
AF 55 IAD to CDG diverted to Halifax

Apparently phoned in bomb threats..

Be safe!

thoughts go out to all those onboard. Scary times,

The flight diverted to Halifax and the people disembarked and taken to secure part of airport, main runway is closed but the secondary is still open as per:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...ifax-1.3323777

2 AF Flights diverted to for security reasons
 

Hoax?

My post is not, the phoned in bomb threats might be...

Between this and the stadium in Hanover yesterday, it's looking like we may be in for a lot of last minute closures of events, aircraft diversion, etc., due to what appears to be hoax threats. :(

There was a threatening call concerning flight AF065 from Washington.

As there's no AF065 departing from IAD (AF055) but one from LAX, AF and the authorities decided to divert both aircrafts.

Lovely. The idiots doing this can't even look up a flight schedule correctly to find which flight number corresponds to which route?

USA media made it sound like separate threats to two distinct flights.

Did either flight have problems with crew timing out due to the diversions? OTOH, I could understand crew being upset by the circumstances and perhaps not feeling fully fit to work the next portion of the flight.

I was on AF 65. Crew handled it well and DL ground crew in SLC did a great job. Not an experience I would care to repeat. Pilot made a very hard landing so mechanics were looking for any structural damage. All pax interviewed by FBI

Sorry to hear that. Did you lose a day in SLC? [In a weird way, I think I would have been interested by the type of questions the investigators were asking, but I'm reluctant to ask you about that on the internet.]

Wasn't there a case in the past few years (maybe several?) that highlighted the tough spot a cabin crew can be in when their opinion on "safe to fly" differs from the airline's? Anyone know AF/other airline's policy on letting cabin crew go off duty after a security incident that shakes them up, despite their being still in their duty period?

Thanks for speaking up, obscure2k. Would you be willing to describe the events on landing/debrief/traveling on in greater detail? This may become a more frequent occurrence; many of us would benefit from the intel.

The aircraft was likely very heavy with the fuel load (I don't think they had time to dump fuel in case of a bomb threat ?), hence the hard landing.

Good point.

I am going to fly AF/KLM to South America (from KUL) in a week's time. Getting a little worried about all these incidents, and the extra security at CDG when I change flights. Anxiously watching this space for any updates.

So, what does this event tell us about the level of confidence the 'system' has in airport security? :confused:

It would seem that, despite the huge expenditure on, and significant inconvenience caused by, the tight security checks at airports (and I'm not in any way questioning the need for these), any would-be supporter of the terrorists can cause major disruption by making a simple telephone call!

Is there really so little trust in the effectiveness of TSA operations that we are prepared to so freely offer such a 'weapon of mass disruption' to the terrorists?

-- Henry