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Nov 8, 2007 8:30 am US/Pacific
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Authorities Search Plane At LaGuardia After Threat
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Police and emergency vehicles were on hand at New York's LaGuardia airport when an American Airlines flight from Chicago landed early Thursday afternoon.
The MD-80, Flight 382 with 117 passengers and five crew members, was towed to a secure area after it landed. After several minutes buses were driven alongside the plane and passengers were able to disembark.
Officials said the plane received some type of bomb threat.
Live video from WCBS-TV Chopper 2 HD showed the passengers being herded to an area between the buses and what appeared to be a concrete retaining wall.
A short time later, authorities removed all of the luggage from the plane's cargo hold. A Port Authority police officer then walked a bomb-sniffing dog up to each bag so it could check for explosives.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The American Airlines Web site indicated Flight 382 left Chicago's O'Hare International Airport at 9:31 a.m. CST and arrived at LaGuardia at 1:28 p.m. EST, nearly 45 minutes late.
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