troubling coincidence of dates...
Prison for Fake Bomb Call (1/12/05 - Philly Airport June 2004)
PHILADELPHIA-January 12, 2005 — A British man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for calling in a phony bomb threat in what authorities say was an attempt to prevent a friend from missing her plane at Philadelphia International Airport.
Prosecutors say Ilyas Savas phoned a hotel at the airport last June and claimed that someone was planning to stash bombs aboard two American Airlines flights – one from Philadelphia to Boston and a second from Boston to London.
Investigators said they later learned that Savas called in the threat from his home in Hackney, England, at the request of an 18-year-old friend from New Jersey who was due to leave Philadelphia on the plane. She had realized that she did not have her passport and wouldn't be allowed aboard.
The plan, prosecutors said, was to delay the flight with a bomb threat
The friend, Hatice Ceylan, lived in Edgewater Park, New Jersey and attended Burlington High School. She also pleaded guilty and is scheduled to be sentenced on February second.