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Back now with more of that breaking news we've been following involving a diverted delta flight to bangor, maine. nbc news's pete williams is live in our washington bureau with details. pete, we want to update our viewers here. flight 273 was heading from paris to atlanta. a disruptive passenger who made, quote, suspicious comments, according to some senior officials. what else do we know here? >> well, the plane that landed here is a delta air bus a-330/300. it's one of the workhorse of the delta fleet planes. what we're told is that after the plane took off from paris today on its way origin...

Now saying flight 273 enroute from paris to atlanta is diverting to bangor, maine, as a result of that disruptive passenger. that passenger will be taken into custody and questioned by authorities. we are still working the phones for the very latest information on this. once again, we have a flight, delta flight being diverted to maine right now because of a passenger that was disruptive. we'll find out hopefully soon how serious of a situation this is in the next couple of minutes. we'll keep you posted. president obama made a stop in iowa today to tour a plant that makes blades for wind tu...

But the essence of the comment was something about the plane being in some danger of explosives. we don't know if he said there's a bomb on the plane. we don't know what. now, there's been a lot of checking going on into this passenger's background. and nothing has lit up the charts on the passenger. there's nothing suspicious in the passenger's past. one official tells me there is no reason other than the passenger's comment to think that the plane is in any kind of danger. but, of course, because of the situation that we're in now, the mood that the country's in, taking no chances, the capta...

That has been diverted because of a disruptive passenger. delta has just released a statement that a passenger that they are calling a disruptive passenger is now in the custody of a federal air marshal on board the plane. this flight is diverting to maine with the disruptive passenger. delta now putting out the statement that the passenger is in custody. there's no further threat on that plane at the moment. it will be landing apparently shortly in maine. we'll keep an eye on that for you. a couple things going on in washington. a senate committee is holding a hearing on mine safety in the ...

Coast that arise during the flight, they do divert these flights. bangor is an airport that they've often used. what we're told by a number of federal officials and by the airline itself is that there was concern that arose during the flight because of the conduct of a passenger. now, there are federal air marshals on board this flight as indeed there are on most if not all flights to the u.s. from overseas. this person is now in custody. what we're told by federal officials who are monitoring this situation is that this is based solely on a comment that a passenger made. not on behavior of th...