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A flight returned to Logan after an anonymous caller claimed a passenger had made threats. Now, police say it was a hoax.
State police released the initial suspect, saying he posed no safety threat to the flight or the public.
An anonymous caller warned authorities about safety threats to a New Jersey-bound plane, leading to its return to Boston Logan International Airport on Sunday afternoon, but police now believe the call was a hoax.
A New Jersey police agency received the call from the anonymous third party, who alleged that a passenger on Delta Air Lines Flight 5770 — from Boston to Newark — had made threats related to the safety of the flight, according to a release from Massachusetts State Police.
Massport fire and state police were waiting for the plane as it landed, and troopers escorted the man off the plane, authorities said.
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Members of the state police Bomb Squad and explosive ordinance detection dogs searched the passenger’s two carry-on bags and reportedly did not find any hazards. The passenger did not have any checked luggage, police said.
After removing the man from the plane and searching his luggage, authorities allowed the plane to take off once again for Newark, New Jersey.
In an emailed update early Monday afternoon, Massachusetts State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said an investigation Sunday by authorities found “that the male who was the subject of the anonymous caller’s allegation posed no threat to the safety of the flight or the public.”
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Police released the man, adding that he had cooperated with the investigation and gave authorities no reason to hold him.
New Jersey authorities are now investigating the source of this hoax call, Procopio confirmed.
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