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BREAKING Bomb threat forces plane to make emergency  landing at New York’s JFK airport

Brendan Grainger
Last updated: December 13, 2016, 07:56 UTC
Published: Tuesday, December 13, 2016, at 05:32 UTC
Category: News
Author: Brendan Grainger
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A bomb threat has forced a Frankfurt bound flight to make an emergency landing in New York tonight.

Lufthansa flight #LH441 was at 37,000 feet passing over New York from Houston when the Lufthansa headquarters recieved a bomb threat via phone.

The port authority and emergency services at John F. Kennedy Airport were notified immedietly.

At 19:00 CST, the pilot’s of flight LH441 elected to make a rapid decent into New York’s JFK airport.

The flight operated by an Airbus A380 landed safely in New York at 8:00pm.

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ByBrendan Grainger
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