Bomb threat forces emergency landing

Bomb threat forces emergency landing

LOS ANGELES (AP): A Philippine Airlines 747 made an emergency landing after a person called in a bomb threat, officials said.

Flight 103 to Manila was called back to Los Angeles International Airport at 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday night (10:30 a.m. Jakarta time) after the unidentified caller made the threat, said Jerry Johnston, regional operations officer for the Federal Aviation Administration.

"From what we understand there was a nonspecified bomb threat made so they brought the aircraft back as a precaution and it is being searched," Johnston said.

Airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said either 340 or 345 people were onboard the flight. They were taken off the plane and held in a secured area at Gate 118, she said.