Texas-Bound Plane Diverted To JFK Airport Due To Bomb Threat
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NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Authorities say a Lufthansa flight was diverted to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport due to a bomb threat.
Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman says Lufthansa Flight 441 was heading from Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, to Frankfurt, Germany, Monday night when a threat was called in to the airline's corporate headquarters in Cologne, Germany.
Coleman says the pilot was notified and chose to divert to JFK as a precaution. The plane was taken to a remote area of the airport where 530 passengers and crew were evacuated.
All passengers are off Lufthansa flight that diverted to JFK tonight due to a threat. Authorities are sweeping plane. Flight rescheduled.
— Kennedy Airport. Wear a Face Covering. (@JFKairport) December 13, 2016
Officials searched the plane. Coleman says nothing suspicious was found.
The flight was rescheduled. Flight 441 was an Airbus A380 -- the world's largest commercial airliner.
The incident did not impact flight operations at JFK.
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