Police and sniffer dogs met a British Airways flight from Heathrow to NY after an “unspecified threat” on Thursday.
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Police dogs swept the plane and found no explosives, and U.S. Customs officers were inspecting the luggage, said Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey.
Airport police, who said they had received an unspecified threat about a flight, moved the aircraft to a remote section of the airport and it is surrounded by police and emergency crews.
Passengers and luggage will be re-screened and “we’ll go from there”, said Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority.
A man threatened to open fire Thursday at a Newark airport terminal and blow up a plane, a law enforcement source told NBC 4 NY.
The news comes about two days after passenger plane landing at Newark Airport bounced up and down on a runway, causing ceiling panels to fall before a pilot canceled the landing and took off again, according to NBC New York.
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A BA spokesman told the Press Association: “The aircraft has landed normally”. The phone call was made from within the United States, the source said. “Security checks will be carried out as a precaution”.
