Londoner Accused of Airline Bomb Threat (Update to Airline bomb threat to 2 Planes in Philadelphia this week)
3:32am (UK) A Londoner made a bomb threat against two American Airlines flights to allow another traveller time to retrieve her passport, the FBI said today.
Ilyas Savas, 33, and Hatice Ceylan, 18, were charged with offences including conspiracy, said Jeffrey Lampinki, special agent in charge for the FBI’s Philadelphia office.
The suspects had been due to fly from Philadelphia to Boston on Wednesday and then to London, but Ceylan forgot her passport, the FBI said.
Savas allegedly called in the bomb threat to a hotel on Wednesday morning to give Ceylan time to get the document, the FBI said. It was not clear why the call wasn’t made directly to the airline.
Nineteen passengers were evacuated from the Philadelphia-Boston flight and were rescreened while the plane was searched. Nothing was found, but the flight was cancelled anyway. The Boston-London flight was also searched before it was allowed to take off with 159 passengers, officials said.
It was not immediately clear if either defendant had a lawyer. Ceylan is from Edgewater Park, New Jersey. Savas lives in London, authorities say. Link to Article
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