BREAKING: Southwest flight searched, cleared in Phoenix after bomb threat

A Southwest Airlines plane that made an unscheduled stop Monday in Phoenix after a bomb threat was made via telephone has been cleared.

Phoenix police and FBI bomb technicians searched the plane, originally bound for Austin, Texas, and found no explosives, the FBI said in a statement.

All passengers have been interviewed and are in the process of boarding another aircraft to Austin, the airline said. Their luggage had been returned to them after TSA agents re-screened all the bags.

Authorities are still trying to determine who called in the threat, which officials say was specific to that flight.

"All efforts are being made to identify the caller who initiated the bomb threat," said FBI Special Agent Manuel Johnson of the agency's Phoenix office.

Southwest flight 2675 was midair over Arizona when it made a 180-degree turn and began its rapid, unscheduled descent into Phoenix.

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Odd that this wasn't mentioned in the news until after the search.