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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 16 2021, @01:14AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 16 2021, @01:14AM (#1187419)

    Charge the accuser with criminal stupidity and be done with it.

    What were you saying about those dangerous vaxxes?

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 16 2021, @01:18AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 16 2021, @01:18AM (#1187421) Journal

    Once again: let people make their own decisions, because you don't have the right to dictate anything you CTRL-Leftist.