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Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb

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

[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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Original Submission

• Re:Slow examination (Score: 3, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Thursday October 14 2021, @03:19PM

  by cmdrklarg (5048) on Thursday October 14 2021, @03:19PM (#1186991)

  The only fear involved in this story is the paranoid passenger. The airlines are also paranoid about bomb threats, so they have to take all reports like this seriously.

  Since we don't have any information about who the people involved were we can't suspect anything.

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  The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

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