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Threat or economic threat. it's terrific. just a different kind. but sadly, i suspect it's possible it's not over. there will be others called in. >> mary, let me give you this information. we are being told that a passenger on board the halifax flight, flight 55 air france, not the one you are looking at now t. one that lanned in halifax. it was en route to paris says an official said it was some kind of security threat, mary. >> well, yeah, a security threat can be everything from a bomb threat to a passenger saying odd things on the plane. i mean, have had situations in the past where passe...

Juliette cayenne a security expert. considering the few information, mary, what do you have to say? >> well, you know, it does appear that obviously somebody was targeting air france. the question is at this point we have to wait for the facts to come out. were they both bomb threats or something else happening on one of the planes? we heard of a bomb threat on one of them. it will be interesting to see what was going on, on the plane. unfortunately, when we return person if they are calling in a bomb threat, you know, it can be anywhere. can you cause an awful lot of damage to the airline eve...

Diverted to salt lake city because of a security incident and that you need to contact local authorities and tsa for more information, especially if you think have you swomeone on that flight. our sources are checking with faa and with air france and as well as at the airports, lax and charles de gaulle. one of our aviation correspondents on the phone now renee marsh joins us with more. what do you know? >> reporter: i just got off the phone with a government official. he tells me this was an air france flight 65. it was traveling from la. it was i am told it left lax at some point and had to ...

People are very tense. but just based on my experience, you know, many years in this feel the second hoax, the second call-in is making me feel better oddly enough. >> stand by. do we have the new image of this airplane? there is an image we are waiting of this air france plane diverted to salt lake city. we will get that up for you, once it is up, the number of security people, emergency personnel on the ground taking care of this plane at soolt lake airport. admen, this is very serious, especially, you should never call in a hoax. there is that image if you can see it. obviously, no one shou...

The federal security director for the tsa at dallas-ft. worth international airport. what do you make of this incident? >> well, you know, in this climate, we again i think you know that the space is such as this, the faa made that decision once they got that information to divert the plane to the runway. what will occur once that plane is on the ground, those passengers will be released from that plane. there will be a thorough search and certainly a thorough investigation will ensue. so, this is just the climate we're in right now when all pre kai cautions will be taken. >> there are inciden...