Bomb Threat Delays Southwest Airlines Flights At LI MacArthur Airport
July 25, 2008 by national
Filed under Stories of Interest
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.
