Jet evacuated after bomb remarks

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Jet evacuated after bomb remarks

Canadian Press

Published: Saturday, December 17, 2005

BURBANK, California -- About 130 passengers were evacuated from a Southwest Airlines jet onto a taxiway after flight attendants overheard a passenger joking about a bomb, authorities said.

Flight 2074 to Las Vegas departed nearly five hours late after bomb-sniffing dogs searched the plane at Bob Hope Airport and found nothing, Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Beth Harbin said Friday. A passenger was taken away in handcuffs and was arrested for investigation of making false bomb threats, Burbank Airport Police Sgt. Ernest Siy.

The man, whom he declined to identify, was held at city jail, Siy said.

"It appears to not have been a serious threat," said Harbin.

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