Threat forces evacuation of plane at Newark gate
An unspecified threat against an airliner at a gate at Newark Liberty International Airport forced the plane to be evacuated Friday afternoon, and authorities were conducting a bomb search on board.
The plane, Continental Airlines flight 249, which had been scheduled to depart for Pittsburgh at around 1 p.m., was towed to a remote section of the airport, where it was being searched, said Tony Ciavolella, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport.
Twenty passengers who were on the aircraft at Terminal C were removed while the search was being carried out.
The nature of the threat was not immediately clear. It was written on some part of the plane's bathroom, an FBI spokesman said.
Port Authority police were notified of the threat at about 12:30 p.m., and responded immediately, along with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The threat came a day after an America West Airbus jet made an emergency landing at Kansas City International Airport when someone left a note in the plane's bathroom that said: "Taliban is Here."
It could not immediately be determined if Friday's incident in Newark involved a copycat, authorities said.(snip)
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Wow, the people who expected a hit on the 29th, only missed by 3 days, about what they were doing two years ago.
This is going over the top, on threats and reports.