Bomb Threat at JFK Airport Disrupts Delta Airlines

Jan 20, 2015 02:00 AM EST

(Photo : Reuters) A Port Authority police van is seen at John F. Kennedy International Airport in the Brooklyn borough of New York January 19, 2015. Emergency crews searched two planes at the airport on Monday night after two bomb threats were called in. Local media say two anonymous calls came into Delta headquarters threatening separate flights with the same number - Delta 468. Media reports said one of those flights was a plane arriving from San Francisco. The other was a plane departing for Tel Aviv. Passengers on both planes were taken off as authorities searched for explosives. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT CRIME LAW)

A phone call at 8 p.m. that there is a bomb aboard a Delta Airlines flight landing at the JFK airport in New York on Monday night triggered an evacuation of the jet and moving it to a remote part of the gateway.

The bomb was said to be on Delta Flight 468, but there were two flights with that number. The first was the one from San Francisco and landing at JFK, while the second was departing JFK bound for Tel Aviv and was already in the boarding process, reports CBS.

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The call prompted evacuation of all passengers and having investigators with bomb-sniffing dogs and gadgets inspect the Israel-bound Boeing 757 aircraft. The other flight from San Francisco was deboarded upon landing and the K-9 units went through the plane and baggage, but it also yielded no bomb, said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Joseph Petangelo.

The second Flight 467 took off close to its original schedule, reports NJ.com.