Turkish Airline Flight Forced To Emergency Land After Bomb Threat

Police reported that a bomb threat forced a Turkish Airline flight from New York to Istanbul to divert and needs to land immediately in Canada. The incident is now already under investigation.

Halifax Stanfield International Airport revealed on Tuesday using their Twitter official account that flight 02 with 256 passengers on board had landed safely and that police were on the scene too.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police chose not to comment on the bomb situation but will do anything in theiri power to pursue the person or people responsible for the bomb threat. The bomb threat caused great commotion among passengers and airline crew forcing the plane for emergency landing. They said that 'police will be searching Turkish Airlines plane with special dogs trained in explosive detection.'

"Luggage will also be searched by police dogs," the RCMP added.

The police explained that the bomb threat was received around 10:50 pm local time and by then the flight had already taken off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, as reported by NDTV.

Last Tuesday, another flight of Air France Flight 55 was diverted to Halifax International Airport from Dulles after an unknown bomb threat was projected just after the plane took off. FBI later made it clear that there was nothing serious or any kind of explosive devices in the plane, as reported by The Guardian.

On the other news, Hurriyet Daily News reports the director of FBI's statement which says that there is no such threat to the United States following a Paris style planned terror attack.

FBI Director James Comey said, "We are not aware of any credible threat here (in the US) of a Paris type attack and we have seen no connection at all between the Paris attackers and the United States."
"ISIL and its supporters put all kind of propaganda like videos and magazines, but that is not credible intelligence. Of course, we investigate all of those propaganda threats but instead the threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in America who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for ISIL," he further concluded.

It should be remembered that almost all Western countries are on red alert after the terrorist group accepted the responsibility of Paris attacks and also announced similar kind of more attacks in different Western countries. Around 130 people lost their lives in the brutal terror attack in Paris.