Florida airport partially evacuated after Frontier Airlines passenger makes bomb threat

An alleged bomb threat aboard a Frontier Airlines flight prompted authorities to evacuate a Florida airport Tuesday. 

A person aboard the flight headed from Palm Beach to Philadelphia made a comment about an explosive, inflicting the evacuation of Concourse C at Palm Beach International Airport, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s spokesperson Teri Barbera advised Fox News Digital. 

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 A Frontier Airlines airplane lands at Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida, United States on June 16, 2021. A passenger was arrested Tuesday after allegedly making a bomb threat, inflicting the partial evacuation of Palm Beach International Airport in Florida. 
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“Apparently, a passenger made an utterance that there was a bomb in his bag(s),” Barbera stated in a press release.

The one that made the threat was arrested by the FBI, she stated.  

The space was evacuated so bomb-detection canines and the sheriff’s bomb squad and the FBI may test two passenger baggage. Noting was discovered. 

Six flights had been delayed in consequence, WFLX-TV reported. 

A constructing on the Palm Beach International Airport.
(Palm Beach International Airport)

Those who obtained off the airplane had been moved to different airport concourses through the search, the news report stated. Frontier Airlines deferred any touch upon the matter to the sheriff’s workplace. Concourse C reopened simply after 8 p.m. 

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