Bomb threat prompts evacuation, search of plane at Philadelphia Airport

Tuesday, June 2, 2015
PHILADELPHIA -- Sister station WPVI-Action News in Philadelphia has confirmed that a bomb threat prompted authorities to move an arriving U.S. Airways plane to a remote location of Philadelphia International Airport, offload all passengers and then search the plane.

It happened before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, shortly after the plane arrived from San Diego.
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Images from the Action Cam near the tarmac showed 93 passengers being led off the jet.

Philadelphia police and firefighters were called in, and K-9 dogs searched the plane.

Action News is told an initial search has turned up no evidence of explosives.

There have been no reports of injuries.
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