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Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 13 2021, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly

[2021-10-13 20:46:32 UTC; Update: Corrected story link.--martyb]

owl writes:

I feel sorry for the accused.

Bomb scare that led to emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport was just passenger adjusting camera: sources:

The “security incident” that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding — after an airline passenger mistook another traveler’s camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday.

American Airlines Flight 4817 from Indianapolis — operated by Republic Airways — made an emergency landing at LaGuardia just after 3 p.m., and authorities took a suspicious passenger into custody for several hours.

It turns out the would-be “bomber” was just a vintage camera aficionado and the woman who reported him made a mistake, sources said.

Why in the world was the passenger in custody for “several hours”? They didn’t do anything wrong.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by captain normal on Wednesday October 13 2021, @08:22PM (3 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @08:22PM (#1186757)

    Why does the link to TFA link to S/N, but then goes to 404 error?

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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday October 13 2021, @08:53PM (2 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 13 2021, @08:53PM (#1186779) Journal

    Why does the link to TFA link to S/N, but then goes to 404 error?

    There was an extra space at the start of the story link. The fix should appears shortly.

    Or could I claim "Pics or it didn't happen"?

    ;(

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:43PM (1 child)

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:43PM (#1186804) Journal

      Or could I claim "Pics or it didn't happen"?

      The pics are still in the process of being developed.

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      • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday October 13 2021, @11:23PM

        by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @11:23PM (#1186826)

        Yeah, I'm still using my old Minolta SLR 35mm camera. :-)))

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