No explosive was found on a Continental Express plane carrying 50 passengers that landed at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport after a bomb threat, according to airport officials.
The police had received a threat of a bomb placed on the regional commercial flight, or at the Tyler, Texas, airport, from where it took off, according to a Houston FBI spokeswoman.
“The threat is considered as non-credible,” said US Homeland Security Department spokesman Jarrod Agen in Washington. “The flight landed without incident. It’s being searched as precautionary measure only.”
The plane, Continental Express flight 9553, was bringing the passengers to Continental Airlines’ Houston hub.
About 50 passengers sat quietly on board the plane parked on a taxiway at Bush Intercontinental for about 45 minutes while it was searched, Quintin Wynn, a passenger on the plane, told Reuters.
“They came on just a few minutes ago, said it was clear. We taxied in,” said Wynn, who is a reporter for KTBS-TV in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Operations at Bush Intercontinental, Houston’s largest airport, continued normally while the plane was being checked, airport officials said.
Report by David Wilkening
