This double-decker A380 is the same model of jet that was diverted. Photo: Martin Leissl/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Lufthansa flight from Texas to Germany was forced to make an emergency landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Monday night after authorities received what they described as a “credible threat” that there was a bomb onboard.

Lufthansa 441 from Houston to Frankfurt diverted to JFK due to bomb threat. pic.twitter.com/fiROCrklek — Spite Expert (@StacheESQ) December 13, 2016

Flight 441 left Houston in the afternoon bound for Frankfurt, but by 8:30 p.m., passengers were being escorted off the plane onto the tarmac at JFK, where the Airbus 380 jumbo jet had been parked well apart from the airport and other aircraft. All 530 passengers and crew safely deplaned; then they were searched.

BREAKING: All passengers are safe after a Houston-Frankfurt Lufthansa flight made an emergency landing at JFK Airport because of bomb threat — Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) December 13, 2016

According to the Port Authority, threats were received by telephone to Lufthansa’s corporate office in Cologne that there was a bomb on the plane after it was already in the air.

The NYPD’s bomb squad, along with explosive-sniffing dogs, searched the plane, and gave the all-clear early Tuesday morning.

Authorities cleared a Lufthansa plane, diverted to JFK tonight after a threat. Passengers deplaned and a search of aircraft was negative. — Port Authority NY&NJ (@PANYNJ) December 13, 2016

This post has been updated throughout.