Bomb Threat Delays Southwest Airlines Flights At LI MacArthur Airport
national | 7/25/2008 | no comments
At least four outgoing flights have been delayed at New York’s MacArthur Airport after a bomb threat was called into a Southwest Airlines office in Houston.
Officials with the town of Islip, which operates the Long Island airport, and a Southwest spokeswoman said the threat was received about Flight 2622 from Long Island to Chicago. It was called into Southwest’s reservations office in Houston shortly before the scheduled takeoff at 7 a.m. Friday.
Chopper 2 HD captured images of TSA officials and bomb-sniffing dogs sweeping the terminal and the affected plane. The Southwest concourse was evacuated into the main terminal while Suffolk Police Department completed their investigation.
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