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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, Insightful) by Immerman on Wednesday October 13 2021, @08:52PM (2 children)

    by Immerman (3985) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @08:52PM (#1186778)

    Yeah. In fact, I don't see why they should have even landed the plane.

    If they really don't want to confront a potentially dangerous passenger, call them up front to deal with some made-up problem with their booking or something, and while they're in conversation with their bag out of sight (sorry sir, no bags are allowed in the hostess area), have someone take a quick peak.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @10:33PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @10:33PM (#1187132)

    have someone take a quick peak [... and set off the bomb!]

    We've seen MacGyver and know how many devilishly clever triggers every bomb has! She's lucky she didn't set it off by seeing it already!

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 16 2021, @06:33AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday October 16 2021, @06:33AM (#1187444) Journal

      But if you've seen MacGyver, you should also know that such a bomb can easily be disarmed with a bit of duct tape and a few random things found in the plane. No need to land the plane.

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.