Handheld console causes airport evacuation

A handheld console device became the reason for an evacuation at one of the terminals in Long Beach Airport in California last Thursday.

What happened was while one passenger was passing through the X-ray machine at around 9:30 a.m., the Transportation Security Administration screeners spotted a “suspicious item”.

After the hullabaloo has been cleared, it turned out that the said item looked suspicious under the X-ray because it was in raw form, meaning its wiring and inner circuits are showing.

The police and the bomb squad, alongside firefighters were called to the airport. Furthermore, this caused a big delay among the passengers that day. Aside from the several hundred people that were evacuated from the terminal for about one and a half hour, five arriving aircraft were held as well on the tarmac until the all-clear was given.

The agency’s spokesperson said that the handheld device belongs to someone who work for “some sort of game or toy company”. If you really want to know, the owner wasn’t named and the handheld device in question wasn’t specified.

Via Chron

A handheld console device became the reason for an evacuation at one of the terminals in Long Beach Airport in California last Thursday.

What happened was while one passenger was passing through the X-ray machine at around 9:30 a.m., the Transportation Security Administration screeners spotted a “suspicious item”.

After the hullabaloo has been cleared, it turned out that the said item looked suspicious under the X-ray because it was in raw form, meaning its wiring and inner circuits are showing.

The police and the bomb squad, alongside firefighters were called to the airport. Furthermore, this caused a big delay among the passengers that day. Aside from the several hundred people that were evacuated from the terminal for about one and a half hour, five arriving aircraft were held as well on the tarmac until the all-clear was given.

The agency’s spokesperson said that the handheld device belongs to someone who work for “some sort of game or toy company”. If you really want to know, the owner wasn’t named and the handheld device in question wasn’t specified.

Via Chron