Bomb Threat Diverts Korean Air to Airbase with F-15 Escort

What: Korean Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Vancouver to Seoul
Where: Comox air base
When: April 10, 2012 5:30 p.m
Who: 149 passengers, 12 crew members
Why: After a bomb threat was made in a telephone call to the Korean Airlines Los Angeles office, the flight was diverted to Canada’s Comox air base, which is 70 miles outside Vancouver.

The flight was escorted by U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jets. Three hours after the flight took off, it landed in Comex safely.

Officers checked passengers and luggage, Royal Canadian Mounted Police were investigating. Police, fire trucks and B.C. Ambulance paramedics were also on the scene.