Bomb threat made aboard Vegas-bound Spirit Airlines
A man has been arrested after making a bomb threat on a Spirit Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
Las Vegas police say that Spirit's Flight 245 landed at McCarran International Airport around 5:30p.m. Saturday, where police took the passenger who made the alleged threat into custody at the gate, UPI reports.
Authorities searched the aircraft and cleared it Sunday morning.
The passengers, after being evacuated and screened, boarded another plane back to Los Angeles International airport (LAX).
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