NEWARK -- Out of "an abundance of caution," police said they were acting on a bomb threat against a flight due to arrive at Newark Liberty International Airport from London this afternoon, police said.
Upon its arrival in Newark sometime around 1 p.m., the British Airways flight was diverted away from the main terminals, and taxied instead to a remote area of the airport, said Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority Police.
Pentangelo said that the plane would be met by officers and searched, and that passengers and bags would be re-screened.
There were 206 passengers and 13 crew on board, he said.
He declined to say how credible police believed the called-in threat to be.
"Out of an abundance of caution, this protocol is being put into place," he said Pentangelo did not immediately have specific information on the flight, including the airline or how many passengers were on board.