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.
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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