Bomb scare cleared on Lufthansa flight diverted to JFK

Authorities said overnight Tuesday that nothing suspicious was found on a Lufthansa flight that had been diverted to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport due to a bomb threat.

Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman said Lufthansa Flight 441 was heading from Houston, Texas, to Frankfurt, Germany, Monday night when a threat was called in to the airline’s corporate headquarters in Cologne, Germany.

Coleman said 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 but did not find anything that confirmed the threat, Coleman said.

The flight has since been rescheduled and the incident did not impact flight operations at JFK.