Air France flight grounded in Amsterdam after social media threat to blow up plane

An Air France flight was grounded in Amsterdam after somebody made threats over Twitter to blow it up.An account named @JihadiJohn8 said the jet would be blown up in the same way as the Russian plane leaving Sharm el Sheikh last month.


All passengers were evacuated from flight AF1741 from Schipol airport, which was due to land in Charles de Gaulle in Paris on Saturday afternoon.

Security officials searched the plane with sniffer dogs .The flight, which was scheduled to leave at 2:45pm, is now due to again at 5pm and reach Charles de Gaulle around just over an hour later.