[freedumb2003]

Just scanned all the news - CNN, HN, Fox, all the BCs -- nothing on this.

FR is my only source (i'm on the left coast). Please keep the info coming.

[prairiebreeze]

I scanned too. Nada on TV.

Kristinn is there anything else on radio?

[kcvl]

British Airways Passengers Questioned

Thursday January 1, 2004 3:46 AM


WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI and Homeland Security Department officials boarded a British Airways jet shortly after it landed at Dulles International Airport Wednesday night and detained passengers for about three hours, officials said.

Transportation Safety Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Marty said passengers aboard Flight 223 from London's Heathrow Airport to Dulles were questioned aboard the plane, which landed at 7:20 p.m. EST. Officials began allowing passengers off the plane around 10:30 p.m.

Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Rachel Sunbarger said the baggage on board the flight was undergoing additional screening.

The plane was being kept several hundred feet from the terminal just as a precaution until questioning was finished, an official said on condition of anonymity.

The official declined to say what specifically led to the quarantine of the plane, but cited the recent increase in the U.S. terror alert status.