Nothing suspicious on grounded Boston-to-Miami plane
(NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Boston, Mass.) – The threat of a bomb on board grounded American Airlines flight 1318 at Logan Airport Wednesday. “I’d rather them be safe for us to fly than to fly in the middle of the plane and all of the sudden you’re like oh my gosh,” said one passenger. The flight had arrived from Dallas at 1:45pm and was scheduled to fly to Miami at 2:30pm. But, just as passengers began boarding, a flight attendant found a bomb threat scrawled on a bathroom cabinet. “They loaded the first people that needed assistance and then they deplaned them and they just said, you know, there’s been an issue that’s happened,” said a passenger on flight 1318. But as the plane was isolated on the tarmac at the end of a runway and their luggage laid out in grids to be searched, the passengers say they were left in the dark. “They should also tell people actually what’s going on, you know they sweep everything under the carpet,” said a flight 1318 passenger, “everybody’s sitting there like an idiot for three hours.” Another passenger said, “We were all sitting in the terminal and CNN came on and we were all sitting there looking at the TV and it looked like our gate and our bags out there laying there, that’s how we all found out.” Authorities found nothing to indicate a bomb was on board. The passengers boarded another plane and arrived in Miami at around 9pm. But if this scenario sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Just two weeks ago, a flight attendant found a bomb threat on a note inside the bathroom of a Boston-bound flight, just after it left Miami. The plane returned to Miami and was searched, but nothing was found on that flight either. Paul LeRocque of Moultonborough, New Hampshire said after that flight, “They kept it cool, everybody on the plane, there was no panic, everybody was – it was very well taken care of.” “I think they did a real nice job on providing our safety and we did have to stay overnight but that was okay too,” said John Madeiro, Naples, Florida after the flight. Police are now investigating whether the two bomb scares on the two American Airlines flights are related.
