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Delta flight ‘wired’ for explosives?
Officials decided to turn around a Delta flight, flying from New York to Madrid, when suspicious wires were spotted sticking out in a rear lavatory.
Flight 126, a Boeing 767-300 carrying 206 passengers, was turned round last night 90 minutes after take off and directed back to New York JFK.
Bomb squad officials and a heavily armed SWAT team searched the plane full of terrified passengers, according to the Daily Mail.
Two wires were found inside plastic straws. One was found in a toilet and one in a sink.
The flight was returned to JFK out of an "abundance of caution," said Delta, and two passengers, a man and a woman were questioned and later released.
Bomb technicians examined the plane but no evidence of explosives was found.
Investigations are continuing.
by Gretchen Kelly, TravelMole US
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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