Military Jets Scrambled Over False Bomb Threat on Newark Flight

US and Canadian military aircraft were sent to the skies in response to an ultimately unfounded security threat on a Scandinavian Airlines flight bound for Newark Liberty International Airport.

The military planes “monitored the airliner from a distance as it passed through Canadian and United States airspace” before the jetliner landed at Newark’s airport without incident, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement. NORAD said the military planes were deployed “out of an abundance of caution.”