(NBC News, New York) Two airplanes at John F. Kennedy Airport have been cleared after a caller warned that hijackers were targeting them.
The planes had already landed when the call came in, law enforcement sources said. The planes were searched in an isolated area as a precaution, and the level of concern was low.
The affected planes were an American Airlines flight from San Francisco, and a Finnair flight from Helsinki, sources said.
The Finnair flight was cleared around 4:30 p.m., a federal official said, and an all-clear on the American Airlines flight followed shortly afterward.
The Port Authority Police received a phoned threat that hijackers wearing gas masks were hiding in the wheel wells of a plane that left from Chicago, but the information was vague, sources said. The American Airlines plane was carrying four federal air marshals, sources said.
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If you think this spate of bomb threats, and now hijacking threats is all for show, then you’re probably correct – but what would make more sense than to frustrate and anger us, causing a massive expenditure of public resources, which will, after several weeks of un-accomplished threats, devolve into public complacency, if no real event occurs? That is when a successful attack would have the greatest effect, from a terrorist perspective.
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED
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~Sic Semper Tyrannis!
