Southwest Airlines diverted a plane scheduled to fly from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale on Friday night due to an on-board incident.
Flight 2094 was diverted to Atlanta, where it landed shortly after 9 p.m., and a passenger was removed due to a “security scare,” according toWPEC-TV.
The FBI in Atlanta said on Saturday that “the FBI and APD have investigated and interviewed the person.”
“There was no credible threat and no charges will be filed,” the FBI said.
Nashville TV stationWSMV-TVreported that the family of Julie Porter of Brentwood, Tennessee, was alerted that something was not right when flight attendants rushed around.
“They didn’t really tell us anything at all except that we were gonna be having an emergency landing at the nearest airport, which they didn’t even tell us where that was gonna be,” Julie’s daughter Sarah said.
“We had to find out ourselves, but there was just a lot of running,” she added.
The Porters said a man on the plane had issues with his bag being unable to fit under a seat, but noted that they did not hear whatever threats were allegedly made. The landing was an exercise in chaos, they said.
“The next thing we know, they’re just yelling at us, ‘Heads down, hands up. Heads down, hands up,’” Julie Porter said. “It was like five minutes, I would say at least, of just the flight attendants yelling that.”
Armed police then entered and removed one passenger.
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