(Story written by Noah Haswell of Beaver County Radio, Published on September 6, 2024 at 8:23 A.M.)
(Pittsburgh, PA) An American Airlines flight took a turn to Pittsburgh after a note that threatened that there was a bomb on the plane was spotted in the airplane’s bathroom on Wednesday morning. According to a spokesperson from the FBI Pittsburgh, the plane this took place on was on American Airlines Flight 1603 from Newark, New Jersey to Dallas, Texas. A flight attendant let the pilot know there was writing on the wall indicating there was a bomb on the flight, and FBI agents and police investigated the plane after it landed in Pittsburgh and found no suspicious findings. The flight went by safely afterwards and it arrived in Dallas on Wednesday afternoon.
FILE – In this Dec. 2, 2020 file photo, an American Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet plane is parked at a maintenance facility in Tulsa, Okla. Paying passengers were scheduled to board a Boeing 737 Max in Miami on Tuesday, Dec. 29 for the first time since safety regulators allowed the plane to fly again after two deadly crashes.
The American Airlines flight is scheduled to land at New York’s LaGuardia Airport with about 100 passengers aboard, according to an airline spokeswoman. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)