Two Air France flights headed from the United States to Paris were diverted Tuesday night due to bomb threats, officials said.
Shortly afterward, Air France Flight 55 from Washington's Dulles International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to an airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia - also due to a bomb threat, a government source said.
"Several law enforcement agencies are working to determine the nature of the threats which caused the aircraft to divert," FBI Special Agent Todd Palmer of the Salt Lake City division said.
"One thing that has to be clear is that we may call this a hoax, but the reality is, terrorism - which we see going on in France right now, and here - is a tactic used to affect a psychological or political change on a community, and that is what this is," Gilliam said.