William Molinie
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07:27, October 27, 2022
A Lufthansa airline flight from New York to Munich had to land on the tarmac at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle on Monday morning because of a bomb threat relayed on the social network “TikTok”. The passengers and the aircraft remained on the ground for several hours before being able to resume their flight to their final destination.
How far can social networks impact reality? 266 passengers paid the price on Monday morning. They and the 14 crew members of Lufthansa flight LH411, which left New York for Munich, were urgently diverted to land on the tarmac at Roissy-Charles-de-France airport. Gaulle.
According to information collected by Europe 1, the origin of this emergency maneuver was a bomb threat following the broadcast, a few hours earlier, of a video on “TikTok” which depicted an individual declaring to have planted a bomb in the aircraft. It was the Americans who immediately advised their German counterparts, who themselves requested an emergency landing from their French colleagues.
Four hours of investigation for nothing
At 6:50 a.m., the plane landed on the Roissy runways and was directed towards an area that the firefighters, deminers and air transport gendarmerie (GTA) had secured. At 7:20 a.m., the passengers were evacuated, taken by bus to terminal B where they were screened by border police and inspected by dogs specializing in the search for explosives. At 8 a.m., the deminers cleared the plane inside the plane to ensure that no bomb had been planted.
But it was not until 10:40 a.m., after the inspection of the luggage in the hold, that the usual procedure for this type of alert could be lifted, no anomaly or incident having been detected.
Clearly, a bad hoax that will have lost several hours to French firefighters, police and gendarmes. According to information from Europe 1, the public prosecutor’s office in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) did not wish to open a judicial investigation, the facts having been reported by the Americans. On the other hand, he requested the transfer of the information collected to the German authorities.