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This happened on Monday, June 10th, on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight from Los Angeles LAX to San Antonio, Texas. Somebody called in a bomb threat and the flight was diverted to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
They didn't find anything, and they shouldn't have because of all the safety mechanisms that are in place, but they still had to take every threat seriously, which is unfortunate because of all the disruptions it caused for the passengers on that flight, and air travel in general, at Sky Harbor and other airports because of the delays it caused. It disgusts me that one person can cause such problems in air travel, and I hope they arrest this person. God only knows what made them do it, and I just hope it doesn't become routine and inspires others to do the same thing.
Not every phone has the feature to allow the number to be identified on the receiving end, it depends on what the telephone customer requests, the Caller ID feature can be disabled, so a person receiving the call will not be able to see the number the call came from. But I'm sure law enforcement organizations have the tools to track the origin of the call. They weren't too specific on who the caller contacted to inform them of the bomb threat; with today's telecommunications technology, they'll be able to determine the location or number of the phone, based on information that pertains to the call at the location where the call was answered.
It's a time-consuming process for the law-enforcement agency investigating this threat, of course if it was made from a pay-phone, then it might get a little tougher, they'll have to resort to voice analysis technology, assuming the caller's voice was recorded.
Not every phone has the feature to allow the number to be identified on the receiving end, it depends on what the telephone customer requests, the Caller ID feature can be disabled, so a person receiving the call will not be able to see the number the call came from. But I'm sure law enforcement organizations have the tools to track the origin of the call. They weren't too specific on who the caller contacted to inform them of the bomb threat; with today's telecommunications technology, they'll be able to determine the location or number of the phone, based on information that pertains to the call at the location where the call was answered.
It's a time-consuming process for the law-enforcement agency investigating this threat, of course if it was made from a pay-phone, then it might get a little tougher, they'll have to resort to voice analysis technology, assuming the caller's voice was recorded.
I hope they catch who did this. If they can catch people on the ground that shoot high-powered laser pointers at aircraft, they should be able to identify this person too.
Wouldn't matter if it was a disposable cell phone,there's no way to trace the call. You can pin-point an area that's it.
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