Korean Airlines Flight lands - Bomb Threat Call

Korean Airlines Flight lands after bomb threat

Korean Airlines Boeing 777 from Vancouver to Seoul was diverted to a nearby Canadian military base after the airline's U.S. call center received a bomb threat.

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Authorities searched the aircraft early Wednesday and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said nothing suspicious was found.

Korean Airlines said in a statement that the call center received the threat about 25 minutes after take-off from Vancouver International Airport.

Officials said the aircraft with 149 passengers then turned around.

A Canadian spokeswoman for The North American Aerospace Defense Command, said two U.S. F-15 fighter jets from Portland, Oregon, escorted the plane to Canada's Comox air base on Vancouver Island, 113 miles outside Vancouver.

Flight passengers and crew stayed overnight in the area while officials did a detailed search of the plane's luggage.

Nothing suspicious had been found.

Korean Airlines flight out of Vancouver faced a similar threat Monday and the all-clear was given after a two hour search. He said Monday's threat was called in somewhere other than the airline's U.S. call center but he declined to say where.

Korean Air spokeswoman Penny Pfaelzer, based in Los Angeles, said that the caller warned that an explosive was on board the aircraft.

An airline spokeswoman in Korea said all the passengers and crew were safe and that the airline would decide on a new departure time after a safety inspection.