A Copa airline flight bound for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/southeast/florida" target="_blank">Tampa, Florida</a>, returned to Panama City’s international airport Friday following a bomb threat, the country’s civil aviation authority said.

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<div class="m"><picture> <img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/09/1200/675/panama_flag.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1" alt="Panamanian flag" width="100%" height="auto"></picture></div> <div class="info"><div class="caption"><p><span>The Panamanian flag flies against a partly cloudy sky, Panama City, Panama, Tuesday, April 5, 2016.</span> <span>(Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)</span></p></div></div>

The Boeing 737-800 landed at <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel/general/airports" target="_blank">Tocumen International Airport</a> at around 11 a.m. local time and moved to an isolated stretch of the tarmac, where 144 passengers were taken off the plane, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel/regions/central-america" target="_blank">Panama’s Civil Aeronautics Authority</a> said on the social media platform X.

An anti-explosives team began inspecting the aircraft.

A Copa flight to Tampa, Florida, from Panama City, was forced to turn around following reports of a bomb threat aboard the 144-passenger airliner.{ai:summary}<p>A Copa airline flight from Panama to Tampa was forced to return due to a bomb threat. Passengers were safely removed from the Boeing 737-800 for inspection. #crime</p>

Florida-bound airliner returns to Panama after bomb threat

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