PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police say a security scare that prompted authorities to recall an airborne flight was the result of a hoax.
Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan says a man removed from US Airways Flight 1267 at Philadelphia International Airport is not a suspect and did nothing wrong.
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Sullivan says police are treating the hoax seriously. He says “this is no joke, this is no laughing matter.”
Sullivan says someone called police at the Philadelphia airport and named a passenger who was in possession of a dangerous substance. That prompted a flight en route to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to be recalled. The plane was searched by bomb technicians and cleared.
Sullivan says someone played “a pretty nasty trick” on the passenger.
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