Just arrived back from the Edinburgh Hogmanay party and heard this on the radio on the way back, desided to check pprune to see, but nothing posted, found it on bbc's website:
US police search BA aircraft
The 747 had arrived from London
A British Airways plane was held for security searches for three hours, after landing at Washington's Dulles airport on New Year's Eve.
The Boeing 747 arrived on Wednesday evening, with 247 passengers and 17 crew on board, Reuters reported.
US officials boarded the plane to interview passengers and check luggage.
The US has raised its national alert status to orange - the second-highest level - and six Air France flights to Los Angeles were cancelled last week.
US intelligence had warned of a "credible threat" from al-Qaeda operatives due to board a flight from Paris to Los Angeles.
French intelligence questioned several people booked on the suspended flights, but said they had found no links to militants, and flights were restarted.
Long delay
Flight BA 233 from London Heathrow landed at Dulles at 1906EST (0006GMT Thursday).
It was held in an area well away from the main terminal building, while officials from the FBI and the Transportation Security Agency boarded the plane.
It was over three hours before passengers were ferried to the arrivals building.
Officials did not say why the flight had been singled out for checks.
A spokeswoman from the Department for Homeland Security would only say the plane had been "detained... for further screening".
Anyone know why? obviously not a bomb scare of some sort otherwise the pax would be out in a shot.
And how can they detain a plane? will the original flight crew take control of the plane to park it at a designated spot? or just a Tug?
Also i heard it was intercepted by security vehicles on the runway where officials boarded the plane, this was mentioned on the radio.