Bomb threats reported on two flights landing at Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta

Daily Mail ^ | 1/24/2014 | Mia De Graaf

[Cementjungle]

Bomb threats have been reported on two flights that recently landed at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.

NORAD fighter jets were deployed to escort Delta flight 1156 and Southwest flight 2492 to the Atlanta, Georgia, airport, the FAA confirmed.

The Delta flight came from Portland, the Southwest flight flew in from Milwaukee.

[Cementjungle]

Probably nothing... but who knows.

[Dr. Sivana]

Oh probably someone looking for an excuse to be late with a term paper.

[holden]

In what manner could fighter jets be useful to escort the planes in such a circumstance? About all I can figure is that a fighter might be called upon in the worst circumstance to blow the plane being escorted out of the sky (into innocuous terrain/water, hopefully) rather than letting it reach some location where many more people would be under threat of death or to protect some other extremely valuable asset, e.g., pentagon, White House or nuclear launch site.

HF

[Madam Theophilus]

Isn’t this about the 4th time Delta flights have had to be grounded in the last month or so?

[Squawk 8888]

I think it’s more about letting our enemies know that we can quickly scramble & splash a hijacked plane.

[kingu]

They’re still taunting on Twitter, wonder how long until the press starts to request interviews...

[RicocheT]

Some nut tweets something and dozens & dozens of travelers on two flights are inconvenienced, miss connections or arrive home late. Find and prosecute the fool that did this.

[upchuck]

Haven’t flown commercial since 1996. No plans to.

[aces]

Our enemies are testing to see how to begin destroying airlines here.. Obamma is a traitor, they can cripple the indutry with threats no doubt..We have allowed our enemies in our lands, we have forgotten the Lord is our master, the people only seek survival in this dead world and not truth and rightiousness..Pray hard and seek the Lord, dark days are upon us..

[Veggie Todd]

Trial run to watch our response.

[Cementjungle]

Trial run to watch our response.

Not their M.O. The terrorists don't give advance warnings about attacks. When they're quiet and not making threats is when we need to be worried.