Jetliner bomb hoax
NZPA-AP Colorado Springs
Bomb squads thoroughly searched a United Airlines jetliner diverted to Colorado Springs yesterday after a bomb threat and found no explosives on board. The plane, carrying 443 people on a flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, landed safely at Colorado Springs and all the passengers got off without incident. The Boeing 747 was
diverted after an anonymous caller told a San Francisco television station that there was a bomb on board the plane, and asked for SUSSO,OOO ($76,000) in small, unmarked notes from United in exchange for telling the airline how to disengage the device. The plane was sent to a high-altitude airport because the caller apparently had told the television station that the bomb was a pressure-sensitive device.
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Press, 23 April 1984, Page 6
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