ARLINGTON, Va. Feb. 10 — A security breach forced about 200 passengers out of a terminal and off some airplanes at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Tuesday. "We did have a woman wander away from the screening area as she was waiting to be secondary screened" in Terminal A, said Amy von Walter, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration. "The decision was made to evacuate the terminal and re-screen all the passengers."
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority spokesman Tom Sullivan said three planes parked at Terminal A gates were emptied, and those passengers were among the people evacuated around noon.
"After the evacuation we had K-9 teams and law enforcement search the secure side," said von Walter, adding that planes parked at Terminal A gates were also re-screened.
Von Walter said re-screening began 15 minutes after the terminal was cleared. The woman who caused the concern was never found, though von Walter said she is believed to have been among those who went through security again.
According to Sullivan, it took about 20 minutes to get everyone back in the terminal, and things were back to normal by early afternoon. ----end
strange statement that she wasn't found, then she was?