Posted on 07/26/2007 10:23:03 AM PDT by Vintage1
Another abandoned backpack I'm guessing. Feel free to pull this - as I'm sure we're now averaging several of these a day.
Fox had a report that it was a suitcase being x-rayed that triggered the evac.
Local abc station is reporting that the bomb squad is on its way.
ABC News has evacuated its headquarters due to suspicious envelope. You don’t suppose it was mailed from Long Beach?
Now, I know this is “series” but a sense of humor helps!
Somewhat shocking. I fly out of there all the time and I find the security there to be absolutely piss poor. For them to find an abandoned back pack must have been the result of a passenger alerting TSA.
There are so many of these happening so often that I never know when to shower anymore!
Just heard on the scanner that they’ve found the owner of the backpack. This may be winding down, but no one is allowed back into the terminalas of yet.
Thanks for the update - please keep us posted. Hoping for another benign incident.
Isn’t the terminal at Long Beach about the size of 3 double-wides parked side-by-side?
Yes, but evacuating it is still quite an inconvenience for all 6 of those passengers!
Add to that the stupidity of someone making a “bomb” comment,like the one made by the irate passenger who missed his flight in Seattle yesterday. I heard someone on the radio (I think it was Glenn Beck) saying that the punishment for such offenses should be a mandatory revocation of the privelege of flying for some length of time (5-10 years). I love that idea.
[snicker] I flew in there once. From of all places... LAX. I kid you not. Dumbest. Flight. Ever.
They didn't even raise the landing gear, and given the wait time at LAX, and waiting to take off... a yellow cab would have been faster.
And the cab driver out front is probably so angry that he’s about to become a one-man jihad.
They really need to stop this business of evacuating whole terminals for a suspicious package, or a security gap.
It’s an all-too predictable way to generate a densely packed crowd, outside next to traffic, in a perfect kill zone.
Instead, clear the immediate area, guard the exits and don’t let anyone new inside. Clear the crowd in place, inside.
By the way what happened with all those people that appeared to be testing the security with the cheese and clay bomb look-a-likes in their checked luggage. I have heard nothing in the media about arrest, ethnic details, or even if they were detained for questioning. Talk about people that should be automatically on a do-not-fly list.
Here’s the latest update I can find:
Several hundred people were evacuated out of the main terminal to parking lot C. All outbound flights have been delayed for two hours.
The large piece of luggage was going through security screening, when it was identified as suspicious.
The bomb squad and police were called to the scene. K9 units are searching the terminal.
Incoming flights are landing, but being held on the other side of the tarmac until the matter has been cleared.
Incoming traffic has been closed at Lakewood.
Braniff had a Fort Worth-Dallas route for years. Even back in the days of propeller-driven airliners that was a short hop!
Speaking of Fort Worth-Dallas air travel, one of the most famous flights in history was along that short route. Most people don’t know or have forgotten that JFK did not arrive directly at Dallas from Washington. Instead, he flew into Fort Worth, where he delivered a speech and made a public appearance on November 21, 1963. The next day he and the First Lady flew in Air Force One from Fort Worth to Dallas Love Field, where they were met with a tumultuous welcome.
They need the Jack Bauer protocol - secure the perimeter...and then get into the flank 2 position.
Another dry run?
Looks like all clear (from the foxnews feed).
Monterey Jack or Gouda?
Heh... there's a thread on that Seattle flight. Doing that anonymously over the phone is one thing, its staggeringly arrogant and wrong. But doing it ~in person at the gate~ is just flabbergastingly stupid. What did he ~think~ they'd do? Just let him on? LOL.
It’s over. Everything returning to normal. The guy who left the backpack has some explaining to do to the FAA, LGPD, TSA, FBI, LASO, etc.
Yuk.
“There are so many of these happening so often that I never know when to shower anymore!”
I just Freep IN the shower and the problem is solved. The cheese keeps getting wet though.
Yes, very small and convenient.
I was on a flight from Beaumont to Houston... cause my manager doesn’t own a globe... /ron white
Maybe he’s the same guy who tried to get a refund on his “stolen” Ryder rental truck after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
yeah, pretty small airport. I flew in and out of LGB in June
(from Boston). It made sense for me because both my motel
and a friend who lives nearby were about 15 mi. north of
there and I didn’t want to cope with traffic jams, etc
out of LAX...Certainly was easy enough to get my rental
car. Enterprise was just across the street—no long walk for me.
ROFL!
Now that’s funny!
I haven’t heard a Jetblue going into the airport all morning....
Some aircraft out of Los Alamitos however,....
The sturdy shower door keeps the moose out, though!
“The passenger carrying the object worked for “some sort of game or toy company,” said TSA spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin”
I’m guessing it was an electronic game, so that rules out Hasbro and Milton Bradley.
ping.
It may be that small but it is to me the best way to fly into the LA area. It’s a throwback to the old and better days of flying and the car rental isright there as well. Give me Long Beach over LAX anytime!!
ping
Busy day today for these odd news, Houston terminal had an odd odor, slowed things down, but nothing found.
I’ve found that your rental car dollars will go much further at LAX than at Long Beach. Go figure.
Suspicious 'game board' causes airport evacuation
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A suspicious item found yesterday at Long Beach Airport, Calif. caused the terminal to be evacuated for about 90 minutes and left five aircraft stranded on the tarmac. The item, found in a checked bag, ended up being a "handheld game board." Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin says, "It certainly was nothing but it certainly looked like something. It had all the wires and components that you would see in an explosive device." The bomb squad was called to the airport -- but no word if they disposed of the nefarious device. Also, the adult passenger is "being interviewed."
We wonder if those TSA agents played the Airport Security game to train for their jobs. So, best suggestion on how to avoid a similar incident would probably be not to put your gaming devices together in your bag. A bundled up package of DS, games with cord could look like a bomb to the untrained eye TSA. Better safe than sorry, please wrap each component separately and keep your DS and/or PSP on your body at all times.
[Thanks Tacohead]
Thank you for the update.
With all the alerts/threats that are going out these days, I would think that anything will odd, if not as expected.
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