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Lost box causes bomb scare at Virginia airport

January 8th, 2010 - 10:03 pm ICT by BNO News ( Leave a comment )

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) — A passenger’s package briefly caused a bomb scare at Norfolk International Airport on Friday morning, officials said. The package was later cleared.

According to Wayne Shank, a spokesman for the airport, an airport employee left a passenger’s package unattended after it got separated from the passenger during a Delta airlines flight. “It arrived before or after the passenger arrived,” Shank said.

Police officers later spotted the box and, following protocol, alerted the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The TSA then swapped the box and received two false positives for explosives inside the box.

Airport officials then requested assistance from the Norfolk Police Department, Shank said, who x-rayed the box and found no explosives.

Some parts of the airport had been closed during the investigation, but operations have now returned to normal.

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