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Fighter jets scramble to meet Memorial Day flights threat

By Paige Winfield Cunningham
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Fighter jets scramble to meet Memorial Day flights threat

Military jets escorted a commercial flight into New York City Monday after telephone threats against four airlines later found to be false.

After an anonymous caller claimed a chemical weapon was aboard the Air France flight, two F-15s guided the plane to the John F. Kennedy International Airport as a precautionary measure, the FBI said.

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