State and federal law enforcement officers are investigating a bomb threat on an American Airlines flight that had stopped at Logan International Airport and was bound for Miami yesterday afternoon - the second such hoax in a month.
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The plane, which arrived from Dallas at 1:45 p.m. and was set to leave for Miami less than an hour later, was held at the airport. Passengers who had already boarded were taken off, and the plane was diverted to the end of a runway. Investigators working with bomb-sniffing dogs inspected the plane’s cargo.
By 4 p.m., investigators determined the threat was a hoax. Passengers continued to Miami on a separate flight.
Yesterday’s hoax was the second in a month. On Sept. 17, a flight en route from Miami to Boston made an emergency landing back in Miami after a flight attendant found a similar note in the lavatory. A sweep of the plane found no suspicious items.
