Security scares continue in United States
NEW YORK – More evidence of the jittery state of airport security in the United States with an AFP story in today’s Melbourne Age.
A last-minute kiss goodbye was responsible for a massive security scare at Newark’s airport in New Jersey.
Newark International went on high alert, with huge delays for passengers, after an unidentified man was spotted in the “sterile” zone. He was not caught or even identified.
The Star-Ledger daily quoted security officials saying that videotape reveals the feared intruder was no more than a man wanting a last kiss from a departing woman.
He simply passed under a rope barrier and with the woman went “hand in hand toward the boarding area”, the newspaper quotes the security officials as saying.
The embarrassing revelation follows the brief shutdown of Bakersfield airport in California on Tuesday when a passenger tried to bring five bottles on to the plane.
Explosives tests initially came back positive, police said, but in the end the substance turned out to be honey.
Yesterday two F-15 fighter jets scrambled to escort a Hawaiin Air flight back to Portland after a passenger caused a disturbance. The passenger was later released without charge.
US airports are jittery following a Christmas Day incident in which a Nigerian man allegedly tried to set off an explosive device on a plane bound for Detroit.
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