Air France Received Bomb Threat For BA-Paris Flight

Air France received a bomb threat for a May 27 flight from Buenos Aires to Paris, an Argentine government official confirmed to The Argentine Post early Wednesday. The threat, which the official described as “unusual,” proved innocuous after inspectors checked the flight and found nothing dangerous.

The official was unaware of any evidence linking the threat to the tragic ending earlier this week of an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Brazil’s military has found pieces of the plane, which had 228 people on board, in international waters almost 700 miles northeast of Brazil.

Investigators now think the plane may have broken apart before crashing into the ocean. But Nelson Jobim, Brazil’s defense minister, on Wednesday largely discarded the possibility that the aircraft may have been bombed.

Jobim pointed to the discovery of a 20-kilometer “oil stain” (seen in the photo above) on the ocean water near the crash site. He said the fuel oil probably would have burned during an explosion if had the plane been bombed.

*Photo provided by the Brazilian Air Force

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