– Two passengers were being questioned further by authorities in connection with a security threat against an American Airlines flight this morning in San Francisco, California, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.
The threat was called in before the plane departed from San Francisco.
Flight 24, bound for New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, was taken to a remote location and passengers were being interviewed and re-screened while local law enforcement officers inspect the aircraft, TSA said.
American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith confirmed the threat was called into San Francisco police and emphasized there was no hostage threat.
A security official told CNN that the threat claimed the flight would be hijacked, but nothing has been found yet to back up that assertion.
Federal air marshals were aboard, according to a source familiar with this incident. The souce did not know whether the marshals had to break cover because of the incident.
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