WESTJET GROUNDS 4TH PLANE IN 5 DAYS AFTER RECEIVING ANOTHER BOMB THREAT
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For the fourth time in five days, another WestJet flight was forced to make an emergency landing, this time diverted to Calgary, due to an alleged bomb threat.
WestJet Flight 722 departed from Vancouver, bound for Toronto on Wednesday night when a threat was called in, forcing officials to make a decision to land the plane early in Calgary.
All 30 passengers and five crew members got off the Boeing 737-700 from the tarmac, where they boarded a bus bound for an undisclosed location where they could be interviewed by police.
No one was injured.
WestJet is calling this and the three other threats against its flights as criminal investigations.
Officials say that a lot of rumours and speculation are being generated by the threats, but they aren’t making any comment on them.
They are also not releasing any details on how they are conducting the investigation.
last Thursday, St. John’s International Airport was temporarily closed because a note was found in the washroom of an Air Canada flight that authorities considered a potential bomb threat.
This is also the FIFTH such incident against a Canadian airline in a week.
This is the fifth WestJet flight that has received hoax threats in the past week and was forced to divert mid-flight. No explosives were found on any of the aircraft, but on Monday, six passengers were injured during an emergency evacuation of a WestJet flight in Winnipeg.
Someone is just ****ing with them. There is no real threat
Someone is just ****ing with them. There is no real threat
How is it funny tho? Would you like it if your flight re-routed, making an emergency landing and it taking longer to get to your destination because someone thought they were being funny?