Police arrest passenger in Delta flight bomb threat

<p>Irish police arrested a 19-year-old German man Monday in connection with a bomb threat that forced a Frankfurt-to-Atlanta Delta Air Lines plane to make an emergency landing in Ireland.</p><p>Police in Shannon, western Ireland, where the jet landed Sunday, said they were questioning the man, a Flight 27 passenger whose name they did not release.</p><p>Police spokeswoman Sinead OHara said the man had been arrested under the Air Navigation and Transport Act but was not charged. She would not say whether police believed he was the person who left a note in a bathroom suggesting there could be a bomb aboard the plane.</p><p>A search of the plane turned up no evidence of a bomb.</p><p>Detectives had questioned the flights 147 passengers and searched the plane before declaring it safe Sunday night.</p><p>Delta said the remaining passengers would be flown to Atlanta later Monday.</p>

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