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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 deimtee on Wednesday October 13 2021, @10:25PM (4 children)

    by deimtee (3272) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @10:25PM (#1186814) Journal

    I checked a bunch of news stories on this, but they all say pretty much the same thing. None of them identify the camera, does anyone know what it was?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by MostCynical on Wednesday October 13 2021, @10:32PM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @10:32PM (#1186816) Journal

    this story has a video of the guy being made to lie on the runway

    Looks like a normal old film SLR next to his bag ..

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/126650610/us-plane-evacuation-was-because-someone-mistook-a-camera-for-a-bomb [stuff.co.nz]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @10:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @10:37PM (#1186817)

    No idea but I'd hazard guess at a fold-out. [lomography.com]

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 13 2021, @11:11PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 13 2021, @11:11PM (#1186825) Journal

    Doesn't much matter, does it? Anything with a detachable lens, and an f-stop setting, a rewind and/or a flash would do the trick. /sarcasm Obviously, we need to outlaw antique cameras to prevent any potential disasters. There oughta be a law!! /sarcasm

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:56AM (#1186904)

      Yes, the Perp was made to lie on the Runaway, but Runaway was lying already, so how is this not redundant? More than obvious that this was a camera from the German village of Winden, and we are all caught in a temporal loop. Most of us for real, and Runaway due to early onset.