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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:32AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 14 2021, @05:32AM (#1186888) Journal

    YES! That ^ exactly. Panic and theatrics make every situation worse.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:51AM (#1186902)

    NO! Only if you have Fox News fed livestock involved. What kind of stupid fucking Republicans do you have to have to freak out over a camera, or student wired timer project, or Critical Race theory? Best to just shoot all the Republicans, before they get on the plane, before they make mistakes like this, again.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 16 2021, @01:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 16 2021, @01:06AM (#1187416)

    Panic and theatrics make every situation worse.

    Like exposing the dangers of the vax, no?