2 Air France flights diverted because of threats

Two Air France flights were diverted Tuesday night.

A bomb threat prompted the airline to interrupt Air France Flight 65 headed from Los Angeles to Paris and divert it to Salt Lake City, various news organizations were reporting.

Passengers were exiting the plane as the FBI and airport police began investigating, according to KSL-TV in Salt Lake City. The investigation was expected to last a few hours, the news organization reported.

Kathleen Ingley, 65, of Phoenix, said she and other passengers on Flight 65 were finishing dinner service when the air pressure began to change. Ingley, a freelance journalist and former Arizona Republic editorial writer, was flying to Paris to visit her daughter's family, a trip she makes three or four times a year.

"And then the flight attendants told us we would be making an emergency landing," Ingley said by phone from the Salt Lake City International Airport. "They told us to put trays on the floor and tighten our seat belts and get anything out of the aisles. No one had any idea what the problem was. Every possible scenario runs through your mind."

The plane was greeted on the tarmac by more than a dozen emergency vehicles. Ingley said passengers exited the plane with their bags and were bused to another part of the airport to be interviewed one-on-one and have their bags searched.

Officials on the ground at the airport told passengers that a bomb threat had prompted the emergency landing, Ingley said.

Recording artist Trevor Moran tweeted that he was on the flight.

The airline also diverted a flight that departed Washington, D.C., for Paris and redirected it to Halifax, the CBC was reporting. A spokesperson for Halifax Stansfield International Airport told the news organization that passengers were leaving the plane - AIr France Flight 55.

2 Air France flights diverted because of threats