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| Air France flight from Paris escorted to JFK by US jets after threat – report | Air France flight from Paris escorted to JFK by US jets after threat – report |
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| An Air France flight from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was being escorted by US fighter jets to New York’s John F Kennedy airport on Monday, after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, New York’s WABC television reported. | An Air France flight from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was being escorted by US fighter jets to New York’s John F Kennedy airport on Monday, after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, New York’s WABC television reported. |
| Flight 22 was scheduled to land in a secure area to be searched, according to the station’s report, which also said US authorities had scrambled fighter jets because Air France did not immediately respond to government requests for information. | Flight 22 was scheduled to land in a secure area to be searched, according to the station’s report, which also said US authorities had scrambled fighter jets because Air France did not immediately respond to government requests for information. |
| Citing an unnamed senior US official, ABC News said the Maryland State Police Fusion Center, which handles intelligence gathering, received an anonymous call of a chemical weapons threat on board the plane. | |
| Representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Air France could not immediately be reached for comment. | |
| The TV station said the threat was not believed to be credible. | The TV station said the threat was not believed to be credible. |