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‘A Plane-Hijacking Will Happen Soon’: Threatening Messages AirDropped During Flight

Passengers on Delta Flight 921 from Atlanta to Seattle received a troubling AirDropped message last month. The message, according to Fox 5 Atlanta, read “A plane-jacking will happen soon, 2 hours and 37 minutes it will start in the front on aisle 6.”

Cornelius Bome’t, a passenger on the plane with his 14-year-old son, told Fox 5 Atlanta airline employees tried to calm everyone down and asked that the person responsible for sending the message step forward. Police boarded the plane to search the aircraft with K-9s.

“They had really big guns,” Bome’t told the news outlet. “They looked like they weren’t playing around. They had helmets. It felt like a movie, it really didn’t feel real.”

Read the full story at Newsweek

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The Government Technology & Services Coalition's Homeland Security Today (HSToday) is the premier news and information resource for the homeland security community, dedicated to elevating the discussions and insights that can support a safe and secure nation. A non-profit magazine and media platform, HSToday provides readers with the whole story, placing facts and comments in context to inform debate and drive realistic solutions to some of the nation’s most vexing security challenges.

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