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French authorities cancel 3 U.S.-bound flights for security reasons
Associated Press
Published December 24, 2003 AIR25
PARIS -- Three Paris-Los Angeles commercial flights were canceled due to security concerns, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
The U.S. Embassy in Paris asked the government to cancel the Air France flights be ``for security reasons,'' a ministry spokesman said.
Two of the flights were scheduled to leave Paris on Wednesday and one was scheduled to depart Thursday evening.
Air France said it was working to arrange accommodations for stranded passengers.
``These flights have been canceled for security reasons. It comes out of a disposition given by American authorities in France,'' said Anna Laban, deputy press attache at the French consulate in Los Angeles.
The cancellations came almost exactly two years after the arrest of so-called ``shoe bomber'' Richard Reid.
Reid, a British convert to Islam, was arrested on Dec. 22, 2001, when he tried but failed to detonate explosives in his shoes on American Airlines flight No. 63 from Paris to Miami. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Associated Press
Published December 24, 2003 AIR25
PARIS -- Three Paris-Los Angeles commercial flights were canceled due to security concerns, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
The U.S. Embassy in Paris asked the government to cancel the Air France flights be ``for security reasons,'' a ministry spokesman said.
Two of the flights were scheduled to leave Paris on Wednesday and one was scheduled to depart Thursday evening.
Air France said it was working to arrange accommodations for stranded passengers.
``These flights have been canceled for security reasons. It comes out of a disposition given by American authorities in France,'' said Anna Laban, deputy press attache at the French consulate in Los Angeles.
The cancellations came almost exactly two years after the arrest of so-called ``shoe bomber'' Richard Reid.
Reid, a British convert to Islam, was arrested on Dec. 22, 2001, when he tried but failed to detonate explosives in his shoes on American Airlines flight No. 63 from Paris to Miami. He was sentenced to life in prison.
