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Passengers said the captain of a JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas could be heard shouting about Al Qaeda and bombs, and the plan made an emergency landing in Texas.

Authorities in Utah evacuated a passenger plane Thursday morning after receiving a bomb threat, an spokeswoman for the Salt Lake City airport said. The SkyWest plane, carrying 46 passengers and three crew members, was en route to Salt Lake City from Helena, Montana, when the threat was "called in," said airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann.

The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner with a bomb hidden in his underwear last year, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, on Thursday waived his right to a speedy trial.

An Air France pilot has declared it "highly likely" that flight AF447 may have been blown up by a terrorist bomb.