The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) stated that the plane, with 256 passengers and crew, landed at Halifax Stanfield International Airport early Sunday after being warned regarding the bomb threat.
No bomb was discovered. And then again, during a comprehensive hunt of the air ship and the travelers' baggage, and the plane was given the all-clear early Sunday to proceed with its trip.
RCMP made statement on twitter that the Turkish Airlines aircraft is planned to continue on to Istanbul later this morning. The analysis about the threat is still ongoing. RCMP finalized search of Turkish Airlines aircraft & baggage at 4:25 a.m., no explosive device found.
The bomb threat accompanies aeronautics authorities on high alarm for conceivable demonstrations of terror taking after the November 13 assaults in Paris that killed 129 individuals and hundreds injured. Authorities got the danger late Saturday at 22:50 after the plane had left New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The airplane arrived in Halifax in Nova Scotia in a matter of seconds before 0100 (0500 GMT).
The RCMP, in a series of explanations on Twitter, stated that police looked the plane and travelers' bags using police dogs taught in explosives. RCMP is hoping to build up the starting point of the threat and distinguish the individual or persons responsible.
Selcuk Unal, Turkey's ambassador to Ottawa told the state-run Turkish news agency Anatolia that Ankara was following the progresses. Unal expressed that a joint emergency center has been set up. After the plane arrived at the air terminal it was taken to a remote and safe segment of the airport.
The most recent threat takes after incidents last Tuesday, when two Air France planes flying from the US to Paris were redirected in view of comparative bomb alarms. Those planes were compelled to arrive in Halifax and in Salt Lake City, Utah; however authorities said no explosives were found on either flight. Authorities said that law enforcement officials in Canada and United States are studying on both happenings.
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