Woman gets probation, counseling, in airline bomb threat

MONROE, LOUISIANNA - A 19-year-old woman who admitted making a bomb threat against a Delta Airlines flight a year ago was sentenced Monday to three months in a halfway house and three years of supervised probation. <br> <br> Upon her release from the halfway house, Erica Turner, a college freshman who also served in the National Guard, will be under electronic surveillance for six month and must attend mental health counseling, U.S. Attorney Don Washington said. <br> <br> Turner pleaded guilty in October to conveying false information about a crime. <br> <br> Turner, of Shreveport, was a passenger on the January 2001 flight that she falsely reported was targeted. She called an emergency dispatcher from the Monroe airport, where the plane made a scheduled stop while en route from Shreveport to Atlanta. <br> <br> ``Flight 1074 that&#39;s leaving in a few minutes is going down,&#39;&#39; Turner told the dispatcher. ``You need to get the kids off the flight. And that lady that&#39;s dressed in the Army suit, Turner, ... is going to die, too.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> There was no bomb on the plane and after a search the flight resumed without incident. <br> <br> Investigators later learned that Turner made the call to delay her return to duty with the National Guard, Washington said.

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