No bomb plane at Houston airport -spokeswoman
Source: Reuters
(Updates with no bomb, details throughout) HOUSTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Investigators have found no bomb on board a propeller-driven plane carrying 50 passengers that landed at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport on Monday morning after a vague bomb threat, an airport spokeswoman said. Police received a vague threat of a bomb placed on the regional commercial flight, or at the Tyler, Texas, airport, from where it took off, a Houston FBI spokeswoman said. "The threat is considered as non-credible," said U.S. 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' <CAL.N> Houston hub. About 50 passengers sat quietly on board the plane parked on a taxiway at Bush Intercontinental Airport for about 45 minutes while it was searched, said Quintin Wynn, a passenger on the plane. "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. An investigation into the source of the threat was continuing, said FBI Special Agent Shauna Dunlap. A Continental Airlines spokesperson was not immediately available on Monday.
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