WASHINGTON — U.S. 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.”

The response adds to the mystery surrounding Scandinavian Airlines Flight 907, which landed around 1:10 p.m. New York time on Wednesday after departing from Norway.

Although details about the incident weren’t immediately available, a spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said earlier that the security issue was a bomb threat that proved to be unfounded.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued a brief ground stop that paused arrivals into New York City’s LaGuardia Airport to “accommodate the response to a reported security issue” on the Scandinavian Airlines flight, the agency said.

The FAA lifted the ground stop shortly after 2 p.m. local time.

SAS AB, which owns the Scandinavian airline, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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