NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities said a Lufthansa flight was diverted to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport because of a bomb threat.
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities said a Lufthansa flight was diverted to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport because of a bomb threat.
Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman says Lufthansa Flight 441 was heading from Houston to Frankfurt, Germany, on 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 its 530 passengers and crew were evacuated.
Officials searched the plane. Coleman said nothing suspicious was found.
The flight was rescheduled.
The incident did not impact flight operations at JFK.