Thirty-five passengers boarding a noontime Delta Connection flight at Toledo Express Airport were evacuated yesterday after a passenger found a bomb threat scrawled onboard, authorities said.
The threat was written on an aircraft information card in a seat pocket, the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority reported.
An obscene comment about America and an arrow leading toward the back of the plane to the word "bomb" were written on the card, which shows an aircraft's basic layout and provides emergency instructions for travelers, said Kelly Rivera Nye, a Port Authority spokesman.
The card was found aboard the plane to be used for Flight 6241 to Cincinnati, operated by Chautauqua Airlines.
The passengers were returned to the airport terminal while the aircraft was taken to the south end of the airport's secondary runway to be inspected, Mrs. Nye said.
A team of three bomb technicians and a bomb-sniffing dog found no devices aboard the plane, she said.The FBI interviewed the passengers, after which alternate travel arrangements were to be made for them, the spokesman said.
The plane arrived in Toledo after a flight from Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport.
Scott Wilson, an FBI spokesman in Cleveland, said he had no further information about the plane's previous flights.
"We'll follow up on it further. Whatever investigation is warranted, we'll attempt," he said.
Previous such threats have resulted in arrests, Mr. Wilson said. If a suspect were identified, he said, investigators would confer with local and federal prosecutors to decide on charges.
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