[drymans wife]

http://www.kval.com/

Breaking News

The Eugene Airport terminal has been re-opened. A suspicious package has been removed from the baggage area. Read more

[Godzilla]

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[Cindy]

Thanks drymans wife.
Let’s post this for archival purposes.

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UPDATE:

Front Page:
http://www.kval.com/

QUOTE:

Suspicious device forces evacuation of Eugene airport terminal
The FBI and Eugene Metro Explosives Disposal Unit has confirmed the suspicious item found in the baggage area of the Eugene Airport this morning appeared to be a simulated explosives device. Eugene Police Department and the Eugene Airport are working with airlines to get the airport back up to full operations.

http://www.kval.com/news/10068916.html

“Suspicious device forces evacuation of Eugene airport terminal”

Story Published: Sep 27, 2007 at 8:54 AM PDT
By Bob Wernick

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A person associated with the suspicious item was on a flight to Denver. That flight has landed and the FBI and the Transportation Safety Administration have contacted that passenger.

The suspicious item has been removed from the airport and is being examined by the FBI and Eugene Police Explosives Unit.”

[Oorang]

Thanks drymans wife. Here are a few additional details:

...The Eugene Police Explosives Disposal Unit examined the device and determined it was a simulated explosives device that resembled a pipe bomb.

A passenger aboard flight 6649 from Eugene to Denver was detained by the FBI in Denver. The FBI continues to question that passenger.

http://www.kezi.com/content/contentID/17641

Denver FBI questions Eugene man after bomb scare
Posted: 1:01 PM, Thursday, September 27, 2007

A piece of steel pipe wrapped in electrician’s tape prompted the evacuation and closure of the Eugene Airport on Thursday. The airport has reopened. The item was found in a passenger’s checked baggage. Eugene police said it was not an actual bomb, but closely resembled one. The passenger was being questioned by FBI agents at the Denver airport.

http://www.registerguard.com/rgn/index.php/rgup/denver_fbi_questions_eugene_man_after_bomb_scare/

[Velveeta]

Thanks to you both.
Eugene Airport update snippet:

According to Denver’s KUSA news, the passenger told FBI agents that he put the pipe, wrapped in black tape, in his shoulder bag because it was too light and he wanted to ‘counterweight’ the other bag he was carrying.

Watch the KGW report Police k-9s searched the plane after it landed in Denver, it came back with negative results. The passenger and his companion were interviewed by authorities.

The FBI did not reveal the identity of the Eugene man and said the man had been allowed to continue his trip to France.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_092707_news_eugene_airport.115a086c6.html

(picture of device at link)

testing 1...2...3..there’s been a lot of that lately.