Atlanta airport disrupted by suspicious image
Posted on: Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 18:41 CDT
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Security officers closed the screening checkpoints at the busy Atlanta airport for nearly two hours on Wednesday after seeing an image of what they suspected could be an explosive in a carry-on bag.
Bomb squad officers were called in after workers with the Transportation Security Administration spotted an X-ray image of what could have been an improvised explosive device around 2 p.m., a TSA official said.
Flights were delayed and security checkpoints evacuated at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport -- the world's busiest passenger airport with nearly 86 million passengers in 2005, according to the Airports Council International.
Bomb squad, local law enforcement and TSA officials examined the image but could not tell if the item was a threat. They physically searched all potentially suspicious bags in the area and deployed dogs to sweep the airport as a precaution, a TSA official said.
Authorities never identified a threat and reopened the screening checkpoints after about two hours.
(Additional reporting by John Crawley in Washington, Karen Jacobs in Atlanta and Michael Christie in Miami)
Source: REUTERS
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