Suspicious Package Shuts Down Airport Security
April 19, 2006 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Homeland Security News
A security screener discovered what’s being called a ’suspicious package’ at a security checkpoint setting off a major security alert at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Darrin Kayser of the TSA says a screener noticed something suspicious in a suitcase going through one of the X-ray screening machines.
The main security screening area has been evacuated. All security gates have been shut down.
Airport officials say the airport remains open.
Tad Hutcheson, a spokesman for AirTran Airways, says all AirTran flights heading to Atlanta are being diverted to other airports.
Delta Air Lines has also stopped landing flights at Hartsfield-Jackson.
