Warning diverts U.S.-bound flight to Dublin
Friday, December 3, 2004 Posted: 1845 GMT (0245 HKT)
BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- A flight headed from Frankfurt to the United States with nearly 400 people on board has been diverted to Dublin because of a security warning over a suspected device, airline officials said.
The Lufthansa flight left for Newark, New Jersey at 1230 GMT (7:30 a.m. ET), the airline said. The warning came two hours later, and the plane was diverted to Dublin, where it landed around 1530 GMT (10:30 a.m. ET), the airline said.
More than 370 passengers and about 20 crew members left the Boeing 747-400, which has been isolated at the airport, police in Dublin said.
Police said they will wait until 0200 GMT (9 p.m. ET) -- the time the plane was scheduled to arrive in Newark -- to search the plane.
They are concerned that a timed device could have been set to detonate before the plane would have landed in Newark.
CNN Producer Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report.