US aircraft diverted after scare

LONDON - A US airliner with 193 people on board landed safely at Glasgow airport yesterday after a security scare forced it to…

LONDON - A US airliner with 193 people on board landed safely at Glasgow airport yesterday after a security scare forced it to divert in mid Atlantic. The American Airlines Boeing 767, on a flight from London to Chicago, was 800 km west of Ireland when it diverted to Glasgow. "It is a security matter," an airline official said.

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