Man misses Spirit flight so allegedly calls in bomb threat to delay plane: FBI

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DETROIT (WJW/AP) — A man is charged after calling Spirit Airlines last week to report a fake bomb threat on a plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan confirmed in a news release.

“No American wants to hear the words ‘bomb’ and ‘airplane’ in the same sentence,” U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon, Jr. said in a statement. “Making this kind of threat undermines our collective sense of security and wastes valuable law enforcement resources.”

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The authorities were alerted Thursday, June 5, around 6:30 a.m., after the budget airlines received a call there was a bomb on an airplane soon headed to Los Angeles…

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