Passenger's suspicious note diverts jet to Maine

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 | 7:00 p.m. CDT; updated 7:05 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, May 22, 2012

BANGOR, Maine — A US Airways jet traveling from Paris to North Carolina was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after a French passenger handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, raising fears of a terror scenario that security officials had warned about.

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