Two Air France flights have been diverted due to bomb threats

Two Air France flights en route to Paris from the United States were diverted on Tuesday because of security issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

An Airbus A-380 that departed from Los Angeles landed in Salt Lake City, where passengers and crew were being deplaned and transferred to the terminal, an FAA spokesman said.

A separate flight that left Dulles International Airport outside Washington was diverted to Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia also because of an unspecified security concern, the FAA said.

According to Air France, the bomb threats were made by phone anonymously after the planes had taken off. Both planes have landed and passengers disembarked.

Here's Air France's statement on the planes: 

"Several law enforcement agencies are working in concert, following established protocol, to determine the nature of the threats which caused the aircraft to divert," FBI Special Agent Todd Palmer of the Salt Lake City division told CNN.

It is not yet clear who made the bomb threat. 

  

 This post will be updated as more information is available. 

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