LaGuardia Airport Reopens After Bomb Scare
August 1, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Authorities temporarily closed one of the terminals at New York’s busy LaGuardia airport on Saturday morning and took a man into custody after discovering what turned out to be a fake bomb in his bag.
Most of the airport’s main terminal was closed at 5:30 a.m./0930 GMT and travelers were allowed to return about 3 1/2 hours later. Jack Kelly, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said the terminal’s Concourse C, where the man was taken into custody, would remain closed until a crime scene investigation had been completed.
Kelly described the suspect as emotionally disturbed and said his bag contained batteries and wires. A police bomb squad was called in and local media reports described the bag’s contents as a fake bomb that was not dangerous.
This is why I support higher wages for the employees screening us at airports. I want zero job dissatisfaction in that arena.