FBI officials say there was "no threat" in an incident that prompted a plane flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to be diverted Wednesday afternoon to El Paso International Airport in Texas.

The Sun Country Airlines flight was headed to Mazatlán, Mexico, from Minneapolis on Wednesday with 156 passengers on board when the El Paso International Airport notified the FBI about the

Federal investigators say there was no threat to the safety of the passengers on the flight that was diverted to El Paso after the security concern was determined to be a “hoax."

A Sun Country Airlines flight operating out of Minneapolis to Mazatlan was diverted to El Paso due to a security concern.

A flight from Minneapolis to Mexico on Wednesday had to be diverted to El Paso due to a “security concern,” drawing a response from the FBI. Sun Country Airlines Flight 593 was forced to make an unscheduled stop in El Paso, near the US-Mexico border. The plane reportedly landed without incident, according to NBC News.

A threatening note found Wednesday on a Sun Country Airlines flight from the Twin Cities that caused the plane’s diversion to El Paso, Texas, was determined to be a hoax perpetuated by two young children,

A threatening note that diverted a Sun Country flight was a fake written by two children on the plane. Sun Country flight 593 left Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport for Mazatlan International Airport in Mexico Wednesday but was forced to land at El Paso International Airport in Texas instead.

Officials ultimately determined that there was "no threat" upon discovering the note on Flight SY593, which was initially heading to Mazatlán International Airport in Mexico before it was diverted "out of an abundance of caution in response to a security concern.