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Bomb Threat Grounds Delta Connection Jet

Note Found Inside Magazine

Police are still searching for the writer of a note found onboard a Chautauqua Airlines regional jet earlier this week, claiming there was a bomb on the plane.

The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette reports 25 passengers and three crewmembers were pulled off the flight bound for Cincinnati Monday afternoon, after one of the passengers found the handwritten note inside a magazine.

The plane was rolling to the runway at Fort Wayne International when the passenger, believed to be seated in row 12, alerted crewmembers to the note.

All persons onboard the Embraer 135 were taken to the terminal and held in a boardroom as Fort Wayne police, assisted by a bomb-sniffing dog and a robot, searched the aircraft.

One of the passengers, Lynnette Whitaker, said they waited for several hours before FBI began interviews. The passengers were allowed to leave the airport at approximately 6 pm, after being interviewed.

No bomb was found, said Fort Wayne police deputy chief Marty Bender.

"These types of incidents have occurred many times since 9/11, and we’d rather err on the side of caution," said FBI special agent Wendy Osborne.

FMI: www.fbi.gov, www.flychautauqua.com/

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