[Starboard]

Passengers had to wait about 20 minutes before they were allowed to exit the plane.

Why wait 20 minutes to evacuate? Who knows what else could have been on that aircraft?

[BigBobber]

My guess is they had to prepare a secure area to interview all the passengers. The incident happened just before landing so they didn’t have any time to get ready. There were almost 300 people on the plane.

I hope the passengers were well screened to see if the bomber had any accomplices.