Lufthansa flight diverted to JFK over bomb threat
Plane from Houston to Frankfurt lands safely after threat of attack is received by phone; authorities search jet
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A Lufthansa A380 at Miami International Airport (YouTube screenshot)
A Lufthansa flight from Texas to Germany made an emergency landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday night 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 of the Airbus A380 double-deck airliner 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 were searching the plane late Monday night.
Coleman says the incident has not impacted flight operations at JFK.
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