Cargo planes grounded in US security scare

[xxMATTGxx]

Several cargo planes have been grounded at separate US airports as authorities investigate suspicious packages, the Transportation Security Administration has said.

The investigations are at Newark in New Jersey and Philadelphia.

The planes were taken to remote locations to be searched.

An unconfirmed report by CNN said that a bomb had been discovered on a UPS flight to Chicago from Yemen when it was stopped in London.

"Out of an abundance of caution the planes were moved to a remote location where they are being met by law enforcement officials," the TSA said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11654390

Tweets are also being re-tweeted by Media with the following:

BREAKING: Bomb plot. US, European authorities trying to thwart what looks to be major attack. A dozen-plus devices shipped to US on planes.

ABC News has learned that US, UK officials trying to stop an ongoing bomb plot against the US.

[xxMATTGxx]

Update: There doesn't seem to be any packages that are full on bombs, although packages that are suspicious causing a bomb scare. Maybe they are testing the security in the cargo division between a number of key points. As it would be a massive operation to send multiple of packages on different flights that would get unloaded at certain airports in the US and UK.

[Conservative,]

Wow :S I'm going on a plane 2moro to Ireland D:

[Mathew]

Watching this on Sky right now (it always amazes me how they have so many Skycopters all over the world, they manage to get their nose in everything! ) Probably nothing, but I do have a lot of respect for the people who look into things like this and investigate everything in so much detail.

Charming, we're looking at a connecting flight through Philadelphia aswell!

[xxMATTGxx]

This just came in:

BBC understands suspicious object found at UK's East Midlands airport was not a bomb, but was potentially sinister

[Conservative,]

I don't wanna go to Ireland now ;l lol. But at least they discovered them.

[Shar]

Doesn't look like anything too serious any more, but continuing checks have to be done I guess.

[Stephen]

they found bombs on them

or explosive materials or whatever same thing

[-:Undertaker:-]

The reason why they attack us is not because we are 'free' but because we continuously meddle in their affairs. The United States has bases across the world (which it cannot afford) including bases in Saudi Arabia (imagine if say, China had bases in Scotland) and we invade countries to make them comply with our way of life - that is why we are targeted and until we close these foreign military bases, stop ordering them around and get out of Afghanistan it is only going to carry on - if not get worse and worse and worse.

Our politicians though will no doubt point to events such as this as an excuse to remove and destroy hundreds of years worth of civil liberties in the name of security - when the threat is very minimal and can mostly be eradicated by doing the above.

[Mrs.McCall]

Politics aside, some of the packages were found to have explodable content in them.

So this was a terrorist threat then. It's quite bizarre but I guess they're trying to get a message out. I know that there's been a high alert due to fear that they're going to attack on the ground i.e. shooting in public places.