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WestJet flight from Las Vegas to Victoria receives bomb threat

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A WestJet flight from Las Vegas to Victoria has landed safely in B.C. after a receiving a bomb threat.
James Bogusz with the Victoria Airport Authority says Flight 1709 received the threat around 4:20 p.m. PT. The plane landed at the airport at 5:43 p.m. and all the passengers have disembarked.

He says officials are not treating the bomb scare as a credible threat, but are taking precautions and a bomb-sniffing dog went through the aircraft.

WestJet tweeted the flight had been cleared and the RCMP will proceed with a criminal mischief investigation.

This is the fifth WestJet flight that has received hoax threats in the past week and was forced to divert mid-flight. No explosives were found on any of the aircraft, but on Monday, six passengers were injured during an emergency evacuation of a WestJet flight in Winnipeg.
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WestJet flight from Las Vegas to Victoria receives bomb threat - British Columbia - CBC News

This is really bizarre... I can't remember anything like this happening before.

Five in a week.

I hope they catch whoever is doing these random acts of douchebaggery.
 
Superfly said:
5 in a week? How is it that it's not making the news here? I watch local news, watch national news, read papers and read articles online and this is the first I've heard of it.

Scary.
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Maybe they don't want copycats.
 
Superfly said:
Good point, but I've never heard of American media to shy away from anything, even if it does exacerbate the problem. If it bleeds, it leads.
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That's a good point, too. It sure has been a busy news week, though. So maybe the threat got lost in the news cycle because of all the other things that have been happening. But I dunno, I'm just guessing. But it looks like they might be hot on the suspects trail, so stayed tuned...unless that gets buried, too.
 
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