LONDON, Oct. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- A Singapore Airlines flight which wasdiverted Monday to Britain's Manchester Airport following a bomb scare resumed its journey to New York three hours later after being given the all clear.

    The Boeing 747-400, carrying 293 passengers and 19 crew from Frankfurt to New York, made a safe emergency landing at 1000 GMT Monday without a military escort, and was then searched by police.

    "It was cleared to leave again. Everyone got back on board and it took off," said a spokesman for Manchester airport in northwestern England.

    It was the fourth airline diverted due to bomb scare in Europe in just over a week.

    Earlier, a spokeswoman for the Singapore Airlines said the diversion was a "security precaution following information received by Singapore Airlines from the German authorities."

    "As the information relates to security, SIA cannot detail it,"she added.

    Last week, three flights -- one British Airways flight from Berlin to London and two Greek Olympic Airlines planes from Athens to New York, were diverted due to similar anonymous calls warning a bomb was on the plane shortly after the planes had taken off.

    The British Airways flight last Thursday was diverted to Amsterdam after a telephone call to a German radio warned there was a bomb on board.

    Two Greek flights were diverted to London's Stansted airport and Ireland's Shannon airports respectively on Sept. 26 and Sept. 28.

    Nothing suspicious had been found during exhaustive searches of the four aircraft after the emergency landing. Enditem