"Credible" bomb threat: Fighters escorting jets to Atlanta

[CZroe]

WSB Radio/TV is reporting NORAD has scrambled fighter jets to escort two domestic flights to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport!

One flight is from Portland and the other is from Milwaukee. They have one runway and part of the airport shut down in preparation.

Update: landed and being checked; passengers taken to a special area to be re-screened.

http://m.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/bomb-threat-reported-hartsfield-jackson-internatio/njwYf/

 

[Nograts]

First!

 

[Subyman]

Ouch, hopefully everything is okay.

Thanks for updating with the link, no other news outlet had anything on it yet. Looks like both planes landed safely and they are checking for bombs now. May be nothing.

 

[CZroe]

Not sure why the time stamp on the site for that article says "12 hours" when they broke into a sports game to break the news a little over an hour ago.

 

[chowderhead]

the tweets that led to this are ridiculous. I guess better safe than sorry but still.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ights-Hartsfield-Jackson-Airport-Atlanta.html

 

[CZroe]

the tweets that led to this are ridiculous. I guess better safe than sorry but still.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ights-Hartsfield-Jackson-Airport-Atlanta.html

Thanks. I wonder what they think makes this "credible."

 

[nickqt]

Thanks. I wonder what they think makes this "credible."

In the US, anything that is scary is credible.