Note: Updates appreciated on this incident.
THANKS to Elephant in Texas for pointing to this post/thread.
Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686736/posts
Plane Diverted to Remote Runway at SAIA (San Antonio Int'l Airport)
WOAI-TV4 ^ | 08/19/2006 | Lauren Jenkins
Posted on 08/19/2006 10:12:53 PM PDT by ElephantinTexas
Plane Diverted to Remote Runway at SAIA
LAST UPDATE: 8/19/2006 10:17:26 PM
Posted By: Lauren Jenkins
A Boeing 737 Jet, forced to make an emergency landing at the San Antonio International Airport has been given the all-clear, and removed from the runway.
News 4 WOAI has learned a fight attendant was concerned after a passenger spent an extreme amount of time in the plane's restroom. After the passenger exited the restroom, the fight attendant noticed the ceiling tiles were displaced. The flight attendant notified authorities and the plane was diverted to a far north corner of the airport. Two teams of bomb-sniffing dogs were brought to search the plane. Airport spokesman David Hebert says both K9 units showed interest in the plane. Passengers, and all luggage, aboard the mid-sized Boeing jet, were removed from the plane. All passengers, but for one man, were free to go. Federal authorities held the man they believed tampered with the restroom, back for questioning.
Less than three hours after diverting the plane, and numerous searches, airport officials gave the all clear.
"We can tell you that there was no device found, says Hebert. It doesn't appear to be any danger at this point.?" Although the situation is over, and the plane has been turned back over to Delta, News 4 WOAI has learned the one passenger is still being questioned. Officials have yet to release his name, but do say he is not from San Antonio.
http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=7689
Updated: August 18th, 2006 11:04 AM EDT
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"Every Airport Traveller to be Fingerprinted in Europe"
The Scotsman
via NewsEdge
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Biometric testing is set to be introduced at European airports as part of stringent new security measures revealed yesterday in the wake of last week's alleged terror plot.
Passengers would have their fingerprint or iris scanned under the measures proposed by EU interior ministers, which would also use passenger profiling to try to identify potential terrorists.
The move to beef up relaxed security procedures in Europe came as John Reid, the Home Secretary, warned human rights would have to be balanced against the threat from terrorism.
Other measures agreed in the wake of last week's terror threat include a commitment to stamping out radicalism by stricter policing of the internet, replacing extremism with a "European" model of Islam, a 250 million research project into liquid explosives and a meeting of security services across Europe this month."
I'm sure I'll have some updates later this morning.