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Bomb scare at Paris airport on plane bound for London
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A London-bound British Airways flight was evacuated at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris yesterday due to a bomb scare, but was later cleared for take-off after a four-hour delay.
A woman in her 50s has been taken into custody on suspicion of claiming the Heathrow-bound plane, with 130 passengers on board, was going to explode, a source close to the inquiry said.
She had been refused access to the plane because she did not have a valid ticket.
An airport source said the threat was made about 10 minutes before flight BA303 was due to take off. Bomb disposal experts and sniffer dogs swept the aircraft, while passengers had to pass back through security, the source said.
Passenger James Anderson, 20, wrote on Twitter that everyone on board had been “individually searched by armed officers,” while police and fire vehicles surrounded the plane.
Airport operator Aeroports de Paris said: “There was an incident that led authorities to decide to keep the plane on the ground and to disembark the passengers a few minutes before take-off, to carry out additional checks.”
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